@KinglyBill If it were easy, everyone would get a 2400. Therefore, it is not easy. Therefore, it is impressive. There is NO REASON for you to put down that achievement. You think that feels good? To have some random person drop by and go, “By the way, you haven’t actually accomplished anything. Bye now!”
**Irrelevant/b not connected with or relevant to something.
Nobody’s talking about Intel finals and they’re not connected to the SAT.
ETA: “You only discovered a new element? Well, it’s not like you cured cancer or anything.” “You only got valedictorian? Jeez, who cares about that?” “You got a perfect score on the AP test? So what? They’re not real college classes anyway.” “You got into the college you wanted? Try doing something impressive. Lots of people get into college.”
If you can’t see how any of those are awful things to say to someone who’s proud of what they’ve achieved, see if you can find some compassion somewhere.
I was quite smug when my older cousins, who had gone to middling colleges, asked me where I was going and I reported that I was going to an Ivy League university. After I had made a point not to offer the information up, even though they had bragged about their many “good college” acceptances previously, none accepted to Ivies.
IMHO, keep it to yourself as much as possible, and pat yourself on the back for the score, and only for the score. I have three friends who got perfect (1600 at the time) scores on their SATs, and one is in the same job as me (low-level professor), one is a starving artist (almost literally, not known at all), and one is dead after having had a nervous breakdown at a HYP and having to transfer out, and never holding down a job. The fact is, I probably wouldn’t have much to say about it except they were the three who got perfect scores on the SAT. So consider whether you want a label or not.
Congratulations, and whatever anyone may say about the SAT or standardized test scores, you took the test, and you got a perfect score (if you’re not scamming us).
Oh dear. It looks like that before we can begin any rational discussion, you need to fix your fallacies. I’ve pointed them out below for each of your paragraphs:
Missing premise (enthymeme) In your first paragraph, the first missing premise is this: “If something is not easy, it is impressive.” Ok, well it is not easy to forget your birthdate either. Is that really so impressive?
Non sequitur: Inherently, Intel and SAT are not associated. But because they are both used to measure achievement, talking about Intel as a comparison is not a priori irrelevant.
Straw man. Also quoting out of context. If you read my post, you would see that I congratulated the OP, before giving the OP some advice with how to view and deal with his accomplishment. It is not remotely similar to what you put down.
This should be obvious. If you can figure it out yourself and fix this and the previous three, we may begin discussion again. Otherwise, I do not have time to waste like this on an irrational flame war.
So many haters, telling him that he should stop bragging; that the SAT is a stupid test.
First of all, this guy did NOT brag about it–if anything, he was holding back the things he deserved for a long time.
He has watched other 2400ers receive high amounts of praise and recognition, and he wonders whether he is missing out on a potential opportunity by staying silent.
He has done what the most humble person would do: kindly ask how beneficial it would be to notify other people.
Furthermore, most of you think that just telling people your score is tantamount to bragging your head off about it, if the score is good. What other way should you tell your score then?
okay idk where this thread is going now but ill just add i got a 2400 from a not so great school and didnt get on the news or anything at all. i did tell people who asked, and word spread, and some people started to dislike me because i’m not in the ‘smart’ crowd and they didn’t think i deserved it, but that’s what life is. be proud of your score, tell people if they ask, but don’t make it into anything bigger than it is like just focus on what’s ahead of you.
Unfortunately, I can’t go back to your post to reread. Seems someone agreed that it was a mean thing to say.