<p>Calmom I agree. I would think they couldn’t even locate my score from the mid-70s. I vaguely recall them but not the exact numbers. I don’t remember at all my GMAT or LSAT scores I took both as a college senior because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get an MBA or a JD. I cannot imagine applying for a job and being expected to produce those test scores. A couple years ago I had to get a college transcript to HR after I started working as it was some sort of federal requirement to have it on file. I ordered it from some company and it was so humorous because all the classes were typed into the transcript and the grades, GPA and all sorts of information were written in pen and it had an actual notary embossed seal. </p>
<p>Yeesh! I’m pretty sure my undergrad grades were recorded in cuneiform, but I’m not sure if the tablets are still available. </p>
<p>I don’t remember any of my scores only that I did lousy on my SAT and good enough on my GRE’s to get into Chicago. </p>
<p>I remember my SAT scores, we spent the better part of senior year obsessing about them. I remember some of my friends’ scores too. I was quite surprised to discover that the verbal score recentered to an 800, but the math stayed the same though it was about the same. I don’t remember my GRE scores except that the verbal score had gone up a little which I attributed at the time to doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with my boyfriend every Sunday.</p>
<p>The rest of you must not be packrats like me–I have all my score reports. Heck, I have my report cards from high school, maybe even junior high.</p>
<p>YOUR report cards were probably good. 
Mine, not so much.</p>
<p>I’m a defender of the importance of the SAT to college admissions, and I still think this is absurd. The reason the SAT makes sense as a qualification for a 17 year old is that there isn’t a lot else to go on. High schools vary so much in quality and rigor that you can’t just compare transcripts, and whether or not you’ve got other things going for you - beyond the usual parade of fairly generic ECs - will depend at least partially on opportunity; </p>
<p>I suppose I could see some argument for using a standardized test to sort kids fresh out of college, as long as it wasn’t as important to the overall package as the SAT is in college admissions, but the idea of asking anyone who has actual work experience about a test he or she took as a teenager is just silly.</p>
<p>They seem to keep your scores forever. I took the SATs in the late 70s, and a few years ago, decided to order my scores because I was considering taking a hiatus from my career to teach, and the first teaching exam is automatically waived if you have a certain SAT score. I was able to get the scores, and got the test waived. I never did teach because financially it would have been difficult, but I now have my scores on official College Board paper forever! Not that it’s worth much…</p>
<p>Yes, they are supposed to archive all old exams. The cost is $11.25 for each score report plus a $30.50 archive retrieval fee:</p>
<p><a href=“Send SAT Scores to Colleges - SAT Suite | College Board”>The SAT – SAT Suite | College Board;
<p>Cool I wonder if I dare go back and ask for them…they will probably look wretched now since they’ve bumped the scoring up so high…sorta like a B is a no-no today when back in the dinosaur age Bs were not a thing to be reviled. I took the ACT also once as a senior and I’ve often wondered if the scale were still the same and/or if the ACT has ever been “recentered” to use the politically correct word. I think I took a GRE…would that have been senior year of college? I recall my college required all seniors to take a standardized test in their major and you had to score a certain number to receive your diploma…almost everyone had no trouble…and I wondered if that was the GRE we took. All I recall was that very few of us worried and we all took it half asleep on a Saturday morning. </p>
<p>^ GRE’s are the test you need to take for Graduate School. </p>
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<p>There are subject specific ones for licensing or other professional purposes in such fields as medicine, nursing, law, and engineering.</p>
<p>I bet it was the GRE. I know the test was specific to your major and my undergrad has always and still is interested in measuring quantitatively what was learned in four years so it makes sense they would have tested us as we were going out the door I did have one poor acquaintance who had already been accepted to law school at Lewis & Clark, but had to take the test a couple times before he passed. If you didn’t hit the college’s required “number” you had to take it over and over until you passed (to get your diploma). </p>
<p>I always thought one of the best aspects of the SAT’s and GRE’s and such is that you do get a chance to take them over. Much better than the high stakes testing some of our students have to pass to get into kindergarten/first grade in private schools or some public schools, if they happened to have a bad day on the day of the test. </p>
<p>Still, it seems kind of harsh to require a minimal GRE score to graduate from college.</p>
<p>Am wondering however if we are going to see a rush of adults to test-prep centers, to either prove that they can in fact achieve a high SAT score if they take the test seriously OR show that they have maintained their abilities in whatever it is that the SAT measures?</p>
<p>“I know the test was specific to your major”</p>
<p>The GRE’s are not specific to one’s major. It’s a general test - just like the SAT. </p>
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<p>The GRE general is like another SAT reasoning and is (or was) about as difficult.</p>
<p>The GRE subjects were the ones that covered college level material in the subjects.</p>
<p>^ I never knew there were GRE subject specific exams. Learn something new every day. </p>
<p>Bonus points for use of the word cuneiform. Well done.</p>
<p>Although I made a bet in a previous post that 90% of you would remember your own SAT scores from decades ago (and I haven’t seen anything yet to change my estimate), while I myself can remember my SAT scores exactly, for both sittings (and yes they were not rounded to nearest 10 points), I have no specific recollection of the scores on later tests that I took in high school. For example, I also took some “Achievement Tests” in Advanced Math and Spanish, as I recall. I don’t remember the Advanced Math score. I do remember the Spanish score, possibly because when I got to college I realized that I could have totally pass out of the language requirement based on my score. However I went on to study other languages in college, namely German and Russian.</p>
<p>I also took the GRE during my senior year of college but don’t remember my score, except that it was sufficient for me to get into some darn good PhD programs in my field (e.g., Princeton, Wisconsin). Similarly, I don’t remember my LSAT score (they changed the scoring system since then anyway, though I think it was above 90th percentile) but it was good enough for me to get into some top law schools (Chicago, Stanford, Boalt [Berkeley]). </p>
<p>But it’s the SAT numbers that are etched indelibly in my memory.</p>
<p>I remember my own SAT scores (also taken before they would have been rounded), and they were high enough that they would not raise eyebrows among the types of employers who seem to be asking about these matters, but these same employers are not ones who recruited (or now recruit) from the LAC I attended. </p>
<p>I do not remember my Achievement test scores, only that they were high enough to get me out of the language requirement and to get me into honors classes restricted to students who had scored a 700 or higher. Getting into an intro calc class that used Apostol instead of the standard text (Thomas?) might have been a mixed blessing, though, for many students.</p>