<p>I just want to know...do I re-norm, because it has been re-normed twice since I took it.</p>
<p>Unbelievable.</p>
<p>Well the last paragraph of the article sums it up nicely:
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<p>I’m aware of one re-centering of the test in 1995. Was there another one?</p>
<p>Some businesses really care about your underlying aptitude, so what you say in an interview may need to be backed up by GPA and SAT scores. When my son was being hired by a major management consulting and accounting firm, he was was asked not only about his SAT scores but also about his LSAT score, which he had taken on speculation (no prep) his sophomore year in college.</p>
<p>In '74 the test was substantially revamped, and some College Board document I saw years ago had an analysis of score differentials between test results between the old and new. That might not be considered a formal re-norming. </p>
<p>Your SAT’s may well be irrelevant or “unadjusted” and hence misleading, but here’s a bet I would make: 90% of the parents posting on this board remember their own SAT scores, and quite likely their Achievement Test or other test scores (AP’s for example). I remember mine from near 50 years ago! And I remember those of my kids from 15 years ago. For some of us, these scores are a “marker,” a stamp on our assessment of our rank or placement in life, practically a tattoo on our brain that we cannot remove from our consciousness.</p>
<p>There was a time before I took the SATs in 1972 when they were reported to the last digit, i.e. 732 not 730, but I am not aware of any recentering besides the one done in 1995.</p>
<p>That’s totally nuts. I do remember my ACT composite because it was a round number. Math subscore? Uhh … And how the heck would you prove it anyway? If it still exits, it’s probably on microfiche. </p>
<p>My SAT score is classified information, son, and has been in secure storage for years. (In other words, I forget.)</p>
<p>Is it any surprise that many of the companies mentioned as using SAT or ACT scores are the typical investment banking and consulting companies (i.e. the ones that tend to be school-prestige-elitist in hiring)?</p>
<p>I have no idea what my SAT was, nor my graduate school test score. They were good, and helped my overall stats. But I have no idea what the digits were. Oh well. I’m sure collegeboard will be happy to find and report them, for $11 per…</p>
<p>I remember my SAT scores, one of which ended in a 3 (in 1970), and I remember my GREs. But I don’t remember any of the ATs. I once looked up the post-recentering equivalents, but I don’t recall what they were.</p>
<p>The only time I had to give my scores for a job was when I applied to be a teacher for Kaplan. I ended up not going through the interview process, which was 2-3 hours drive away. They said my scores were fine, but that at some point I would have to retake them because they were so old. :)</p>
<p>Never wrote the SAT, but I do remember my LSAT percentile - tho’ that was only 25 years ago.</p>
<p>710 English Writing, 780 Chem, 790 Math II from 1980, but I still don’t remember what I did with that bill for the x-ray I meant to pay last week. </p>
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<p>I remember all my scores, but I was an admissions nerd (and cognitive psych nerd) even back then. No one was surprised when I went into test prep professionally.</p>
<p>@LucieTheLakie LOL! Well, I was right that they have that profit center covered, in any event!</p>
<p>“Is it any surprise that many of the companies mentioned as using SAT or ACT scores are the typical investment banking and consulting companies (i.e. the ones that tend to be school-prestige-elitist in hiring)?”</p>
<p>And yet amazingly McKinsey paid a good amount of money to acquire my former manager’s consulting firm and all the people, with a mix of both elite school and not-elite-school pedigrees. I still work with this group in a professional basis, and just imagine … the ones I worked with most recently went to (gasp) Hofstra and SUNY Buffalo. And really, they aren’t blithering idiots!</p>
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<p>That’s a good point. My son had problems getting College Board scores when he was applying as a transfer student roughly six years after taking the tests in high school-- CB couldn’t manage to find his scores and that meant that one transfer app was never completed. Fortunately the school he ended up attending and graduating from did not require that transfers students submit their SAT scores. My son sent me back to his high school to retrieve his AP score reports --those, too, were lost – and we were lucky because the high school was getting ready to destroy their copies. </p>
<p>I for one do not remember what my SAT scores was, or even my LSAT … but I guess if I wanted to impress someone, I could choose to misremember the exact scores of the tests in any way I choose. I think I would have taken the SAT in 1969. </p>
<p>When my daughter was a senior in college, she called me because a job application asked for her SAT scores and she couldn’t remember them – she figured that I had a record somewhere. My daughter was graduating summa cum laude & phi beta kappa. I told just to leave the question on the job application blank – reporting her test scores wouldn’t help.</p>
<p>My daughter had weak math scores by CC standards – around 70th percentile. I don’t think she ever heard back from the company that wanted the test scores, but at her first job post-college she was responsible for managing a $2 million budget. That employer didn’t want her SAT scores, but they did make clear that they wanted someone with bookkeeping experience. My daughter could say “yes” to that, but it wasn’t something she learned in school or had ever been tested on. </p>