Never took the SATs. Got accepted into a bunch of places (UW Madison, Purdue WL, UIUC, Iowa State U), ended up choosing ISU and staying there for the better part of a decade.
Did get a BSEE with 4.0, and a PhdEE with 3.90 (skipped MSEE).
Total slacker in grade and high school - too busy gaming and chasing girls
Ready for this?
Barely graduated HS
Umass which took 5 years to graduate because I was an immature procrastinating trash
GPA 2.3
SAT 1040 (on 1600 scale)
Worthless management & marketing double major
I HATED schoolin' and studying. I had an awful habit of procrastination and terrible discipline.
Thanks god in US, companies don't care about GPA. Not a single company I interviewed for gave a crap about my GPA. I did land an average job in a leading telecom company making 33K. Then got promoted with 45K 8 months after.
I do have a knack for pretty good public speaking and interviewing. And I also worked my ass off. 6 years later today, I'm in IT management consulting- I'll be grossing just under $180K this year.
I do worry for my future kids. I want those mofos to have a much better start in school.
Perhaps only because I'm able to spend more class time having conversations with my best students (in calculus class), but I'm aware of several of my students who in the past year or so have been interviewed locally by representatives of several ivy league schools - the representatives came to this area, rather than the students traveling to those schools. I'm unaware of this happening off campus for any non ivy-league schools. Now, perhaps they used someone more local; not flown in from the school, but they certainly weren't as local as even being from within my county. I've also recently had a student accepted by and enrolled in MIT. I spent quite a few hours helping him with parts of the application process (particularly the longest letter of recommendation I've ever written, following everything MIT wanted included in such a letter), so I'm aware of what their standards are.
From MIT themselves, "The most important thing to remember is that at MIT we admit people, not numbers..." If you look here: http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats you can see that of the 1800 and some admittances last year, 60 of those students scored a 690 or below on the math portion of the SAT. (Not that my former student was that low.) 25% of the students scored 750 or below on the math portion of the SAT (750 was the 1st quartile). Whoa, (just looked), that's still the 98th percentile; didn't realize that this forum was the 1%ers in intelligence.
You were published in a major publication? All this while you were in high school? Jesus Christ you're lying. Do you know how difficult it is to get published for regular researchers? Did you enter the Westinghouse Science Talent Search like other hs aspiring scientists? Did you win? I entered after doing summer research at Rockefeller University working on multiple sclerosis in Dr. Zabriskie's lab. I also did another summer program at Cornell University Medical College (they were right next to each other). This was when I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. But, after that, I switched my focus to engineering.
I think things are different than when I was applying to school. I guess schools are now diversifying so these grades don't mean as much as they used to. A 650 is worse than pathetic for an elite school. I'm sorry but that's just the truth.
Back to Alkie, I still think he's lying. He claimed they flew in to interview him. Sounds like bullshit to me. ALso, why apply to MIT and then two other local schools? Makes no sense to me but, from what I'm reading in this thread, other people have made similarily strange decisions. IMHO, if you're applying to an elite school, you aren't doing it for kicks and giggles. You're serious. And, if you're applying to one, you should be applying to others as well.
Maybe he didn't just fly down to his condo for me. Maybe he was interviewing others.
Oh. I never applied to MIT or Georgia Tech. They called me.
I applied to UF and UM for Pharmacy school a few years later because they were good and sort of local. At the same time I was marrying a chick the did Equestrian riding and was looking for Architecture. UF was a better match than UM.
You need to live more.
I thought you said you applied. So, you never applied but got someone to come to see you anyway? My Lawd, you must've Doogie Fuckin Hoswer back in the '80s, weren't you? I mean, they must've seen you on tv creating special chemicals while doing large scale bank transactions and said "I want to be that guy when I grow up. Hand me the damn phone"
Still, I guess everyone here can't be wrong. I guess schools do do interviews if you live out in G-d knows where and they need to screen you. I know, at my school over 20 of us went to Harvard, like 80+ went to Columbia and 7 went to Princeton, amongst other schools. This school was in NYC and was well known so I guess no interviews were required.
The astounding thing about this thread is that based on the scores being posted, it would seem that the ATOT average SAT score is well above the 95th percentile.
My theory has 3 parts:
1. members of a technical forum are probably smarter than average as a general rule
2. people with average or low scores aren't going to go out of their way to tell people about it.
3. This is the internet and people lie
I'll admit my lowly 1310 (600 verbal, 710 math) on the old SAT (which I think is around 90th percentile) and my 3.0 GPA (thanks to getting a social life and partying in my junior and senior years).
I only applied to University of Oregon and got accepted.
My daughter scored around the 60th percentile on the SAT.
When she took it in 7th grade.
She will be a junior this fall, so she will be taking it again, probably in about a year.
I admitted my lowly 1190. I think its one and two combined. Most people joined back when you had to have at least 3 brain cells to get on the internet.
I'd say anyone who remembers their exact scores by section is a bit of a loon living in the past or just guessing :awe:.
ACT: 27
GPA: ~3.5
Only applied to U of Washington and got in.
For grad school:
GRE: VERBAL:570 QUANT:760 ANAL/WRITE: 5.0
LSAT: 168
GPA: 3.45
Got into UofWA EE, waitlisted on the law school (I had some strange notion of doing MSEE and JD at the same time...ultimately didn't get in to the law school). Got several offers of scholarships for other law schools but also decided if I had to choose one or the other I'd choose EE.
Is that why you do ".." in serious threads?
For most scholars, their test scores are very important. Unless you have a way to change the world under your sleeve.
I believe most here are liars. That's why I try to prove my posts and then deal with the backlash.
Way back in the day things were harder then, he joined 12 year ago.
I may have asked this before but do you know MCWS? http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/001czero/FILES/cocot.txt
You haven't proven shit. You just say you lost everything in a hurricane or storm or whatever. I swear, none of what you said makes sense. You said MIT sought you out then you applied. But before, you said you never applied to MIT. It's all a fantasy.
I will say this though. Never heard of a 'Pharmacy School' until I read this thread. Learn something new every day, I guess.