<p>Marite, the first quotation was indeed from post 292 written by SoozieVt. Sorry, if this was not clearly spelled out. </p>
<p>I understand that the M/CR scores (based on 1600 max) are still the standard, especially for the press. However, this was not just any article, and considering the abundance of details (such as mentioning IB), the omissions and ambiguity speak volumes.</p>
<p>^^ Ooops (Re:USA All Academic Team) I think the "perfect" SAT accomplishment was noted in the bio of a couple of the winners. I didn't see mention of SAT scores for any of the others.....</p>
<p>NSM,</p>
<p>I am sorry but I disagree with your analysis that a student that scores in the 95th percentile may lack the critical reading or math skills to do the research required. I have found that if someone is interested in a subject that they can comprehend what is being written.</p>
<p>Take a look at the boy/sports sub-culture, particularly with fantasy leagues. These kids are literate well above their standardized testing level when it comes to sports statistics because it interests them. I am not sure about this kid but it is hard to understand how much of an impact interest has on learning and perhaps even harder to communicate that to those on the admissions committees.</p>
<p>I just want to point out that the picture which accompanied the article prominently showed several SAT prep books laid out in front of the kid and his parents. While that clearly was a staged shot, it also seemed obvious that the books really did belong to the kid, whose name was stenciled across the edge of "10 Real SATs". see: <a href="http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2006/08/24/admission-large.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2006/08/24/admission-large.jpg</a></p>
<p>I am just pointing this out in response those who suggest that the below-1400 SAT was the result of a single sitting -- the books suggest evidence of extensive prep, and one would assume that a kid who spends that much time and money on prep books well would also retake the test if not satisfied with the scores. Also from the article:
[quote]
Adding to the stress was all the talking and obsessing. Knowing all his classmates were going through it together made things easier, but the test score comparisons and the buzz about where people were applying and how so-and-so got into that school while so-and-so didn't just made things worse. The online forums, too, made it seem like a life-or-death situation.</p>
<p>Jonathan tried not to talk about it too much.
[/quote]
Sound to me like a kid who definitely was worried about his scores.</p>
<p>calmom (and others), what are those green on white pages nearest young Cross? Appears to be 3 of them?</p>
<p>I thought those might be printouts of some of the spreadsheets the dad said he made to track everything.</p>
<p>Does anybody recognize them as score reports? D didn't take SAT II's so I'm not sure but they look similar to something she received, though not exact. Could be generated online, and her reports were mailed. (As I look more the one under his left elbow looks just like stuff printed off my home printer. Overinked, wavy, and all.) </p>
<p>It's not important. Just wondering.</p>
<p>I've got my son's SAT score reports in front of me, and they don't look anything like the ones in the picture, but my son's reports are kind of old (from 2000) and I don't know where my daughter's reports would be, but I'll check her "college" box. </p>
<p>(The reason I've got my son's handy is that the College Board lost them and never sent them to the colleges he applied to, so I had to go through old boxes to get copies of the originals for him -- I think he needed SAT scores to verify his exemption from basic math & English courses at his current college. Anyway, once having completed the dig, I put my son's stuff where I could find it easily).</p>
<p>I don't have D's but I think it was more like a lighter green color for the SAT 1. </p>
<p>(Un-led by me, my W who just walked up said "they look like scores from a standardized test". She then went on to guess one of the skills test, but still. It looked like a score report to her , too. LOL.)</p>
<p>Cur,</p>
<p>They do not look like score reports to me . . . and my son did take the SAT 2s. In fact, both of them did.</p>
<p>It looks like he did take the SAT 2s because on of the review books is for SAT 2 math. Though it does not say whether it is level 1 or 2. Regardless, it looks like he prepped for the tests and did well, 1380, or 95th percentile. It does not say what his SAT 2 scores were or whether he took any APs but those could be tips also.</p>
<p>My curiousity is getting the better of me, Eagle. As I said, they didn't look like any of the score reports D received, but we didn't download them from anywhere.</p>
<p>You know, this is what it probably was like when the Kremlinologists got together to study May Day parade pictures in the 1950s.</p>
<p>JHS:</p>
<p>LOL!
Lawyers ( of which there are a few on this thread) merely call them exhibits.</p>
<p>Looking at this picture, Princeton definitely made the right call. You couldn't pay me six figures to be in a picture like this (if it were seven, well maybe). Princeton admissions probably has this picture now hung on their wall as an example of one of their best decisions.</p>
<p>JHS, LOL. I do find myself wishing for that zoom in technology like on the crime shows (I think it uses computers to fill in pixels missing from the detail. But I'm a liberal arts major.;))</p>
<p>He is one of 41 valedictorians? Oh my! That is just unbelievable.</p>
<p>You thinking you could decipher his scores from the paperwork???</p>
<p>Maybe not the scores, but had they been SAT1 scores, maybe the number of attempts. But if I could get one of those CSI machines...hmmmm...maybe. LOL. I was able to read the title of one of the paperbacks -it was about finding ways to finance college.</p>
<p>Gosh. All these gumshoes manqués converging on CC! I vote for renaming the Parents Forum, the Department of Forensic Pathology--or do I mean pathological forensics? :)</p>
<p>AAHH, come on . I'm just having a little fun. Morbid maybe. But fun. Better than network. This TV bites back. LOL. </p>
<p>I was able to blow it up. I just lost too much detail.:( I do know the prep book was for both 1c and 2c though, :)</p>
