<p>I also had Apostol, though we started the year “developing” the calculus more or less intuitively. My little brother at Caltech had the same book. He “got” it; I sort of got it… He became a physicist. I became a social scientist.</p>
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<p>Here are the GREs:</p>
<p>General: <a href=“Learn About GRE”>Learn About GRE;
Subjects: <a href=“Learn About GRE”>Learn About GRE;
<p>^ I’m not doubting there are. I just never heard of them before and none were required for admission to any graduate program where I applied. </p>
<p>Some PhD programs did require the GRE general and an appropriate subject test for admission, but the use of GREs is getting less common (there are fewer subject tests than there used to be).</p>
<p>Professional post-bachelor’s programs have their own standardized tests like the GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT.</p>
<p>I wasn’t in a PhD program - strictly a Masters program. I earned an MPP. I only needed the general GRE. </p>
<p>I remember my SAT scores, and my GMAT score. I also remember that I went to a Styx concert the night before the SATs. I can’t even believe my parents let me do that; would any of us let their kid do that today?</p>
<p>For those employers who want to see SAT or ACT scores, is it an automatic rejection if the applicant has no SAT or ACT scores? Someone could have graduated from a well-respected university, but never have taken the SAT or ACT.</p>
<p>Probably depends on the employer, but there are probably many adults who are college graduates but who have never taken either test. Not all colleges require them, and not everyone goes directly to a 4 year college from high school. </p>
<p>My memory: There’s this test you have to take – bring 3 sharp pencils, show up at this time, bring a sack lunch. Take test. Eat the lunch you brought (and have some water from the water fountain). Then go back in the room and take 3 subject tests in the afternoon. No prep; one and done. (I don’t remember anyone taking it a second time – but given the lousy counseling at that high school, I’m a little surprised anyone even got signed up to take the exam.) Luckily I was a reader, and I ran the boards on all the antonyms and analogies. The math had some very weird logic questions – given some situation, was it enough to know fact A, or fact B, or fact C, or fact A and fact C,… I don’t remember seeing questions like in my daughter’s era. </p>
<p>It’s all so dumb - employers asking for scores from a test taken when you were 17. </p>
<p>Google doesn’t bother with that, apparently. They do, however do their own version of testing. My guess is that it correlates highly with the SAT, though.</p>
<p><a href=“http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0&referrer=&_ga=1.5097210.870702230.1390144943”>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0&referrer=&_ga=1.5097210.870702230.1390144943</a></p>
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<p>It might be easier to just recall your SAT scores. :)</p>
<p>I came across my old SAT score report sheet in addition to report cards in a scrapbook that my mom had made me in high school. Turns out, I did worse the second time I took the SAT…I only remembered my higher score and conveniently forgot the lower one:) This was 1984. I know I had some kind of test prep book that I worked on. But nothing as intense as it can be these days! My high school didn’t even offer AP! Totally blank on what my GRE scores were! </p>
<p>Who would have thought the SAT was going to become such a drama for us as parents? Mine didn’t know my score, nor were they interested! </p>
<p>My SAT and LSAT scores were the same for verbal and math in 1974 as 1978; same 100 points higher for verbal than math. Have been asked by employer for college diploma and law school diploma as well as credit report. Thought the requests were rather unusual. My relative was asked to get a letter from UMichigan that her masters in learning disabilities was a masters in special ed. Can’t remember anyone asking me test scores in any interview. </p>
<p>I remember my ACT score but only that my SAT scores were good for the time (scores are much higher now than around 1970 when I took them so reporting them isn’t fair). NMS so obviously good. Only remember my MCAT was also very good- they have changed scoring of that so much I couldn’t relate it to today. What about people from the ACT states that never took the SAT way back when? Discrimination for someone who was successful and yet not from the region using the SAT back in the day? I can honestly say I have forgotten most material in many fields than most people ever learn. Thank goodness working in business, of any kind, never interested me.</p>
<p>I remember son’s test scores- they were GOOD. </p>
<p>I wonder if they are hung up on test scores because gpas are so hard to evaluate. Different colleges matter and different courses taken. The STEM major who bothers with more than the required humanities and social sciences who lowers the overall gpa but is a better thinker…</p>
<p>“I also remember that I went to a Styx concert the night before the SATs. I can’t even believe my parents let me do that; would any of us let their kid do that today?”</p>
<p>I can go you one better! Remember when the SAT’s were only offered a few times a year - you had to hit the window. My family was on spring break skiing in Colorado and I flew home early to be able to take them. I was picked up at the airport by my mom’s friend and was to stay at her house that night and she would drive me the next morning to the test. Well, I got home; my boyfriend stopped by and I went out with him <em>without telling the woman whose house I was at</em> (and remember, this was pre-cell phones). I was out for hours and she was quite upset when I got home (completely understandably - I acted like a complete a**<em>). She was responsible for me and had no idea where I was. I spent the night tossing and turning because I *knew</em> my parents were going to kill me when I got home, and took the SAT under that stress! (And still nailed it, but that’s because I’m just a very good standardized test-taker, not because I’m any kind of genius.) They did ground me for 6 weeks, which was completely deserved. I really blew it.</p>
<p>So ReadytoRoll and pizzagirl - do your kids know those stories? :)) </p>
<p>I have no SAT scores. Growing up in Illinois, I took the ACT (once), did well and that was it.</p>
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<p>Or the H/SS major who bothers with science and math courses harder than the “physics for poets” and “rocks for jocks” ones…</p>
<p>I was up all night with a cappella audition deliberations on a Thursday night/Friday morning 24 hours before the LSAT. Luckily, it all worked out, but I don’t think I was at my best.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, that is classic! I went out the night before my SAT, too, but not as dramatically. I can’t remember what I did or where I went, just that it was a normal Friday night for me. We just didn’t stress over it. One and done for me, too. </p>