<p><a href="http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/teen-gets-perfect-score-on-sat-act/20060818065409990007?ncid=NWS00010000000001%5B/url%5D">http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/teen-gets-perfect-score-on-sat-act/20060818065409990007?ncid=NWS00010000000001</a>
This is a link to an article on AOL. If it doesn't work, I'llsee if I can find it elsewhere. This gentleman got a 2400 on the SAT and 36 on the ACT. So what's next....</p>
<p>So what's next? His SAT IIs! How did he do? </p>
<p>The new standard: 4836.</p>
<p>jym626~</p>
<p>They ran a front page article here in our local newspaper...he's from our area! One of my D's best friends goes to school with him. He sounds like a really nice and modest kid--very impressive! I hope that he achieves his college dreams! ~berurah</p>
<p>JHS-
I was sort of thinking about something other than standardized testing when I mused "whats next". Like perfect cold fusion or something... Where'd the 4836 figure come from?</p>
<p>Hi Berurah!!!
I guess this fella can make a killing offering SAT and ACT tutoring while he applies to colleges, eh? </p>
<p>Hows' Duke going? Did I tell you that when we (with s # 2) did the tour/info session while at Duke for the TIP program this summer, the student tourguides disappeared after the first round of tours, leaving the poor adcomm, after our info session, to take us around in her suit and high heels!! And it was like 100 degrees out! (Fortunately for us, sknows his way around the campus, having spend a few summers there, but I really did want to hear what the studnets had to say-- not more of the adcomm's info.</p>
<p>Sorry.. I digress...</p>
<p>I guess what's new about this is that his perfect on the SAT I was on the "new" SAT I, with a top score of 2400. There were three girls IN THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL in Minnesota two years ago who all aced the SAT I (scoring 1600) and the ACT (scoring 36). It made me wonder what's in the water over in that town.</p>
<p>Whoa, tokenadult! That's amazing! Can I ship my HS junior there for the year? What city are we talking about? Maybe I can find a room for rent on craigslist and ship his b-u-t-t there for the yr.</p>
<p>The school district in Minnesota with the triple-double ace was the Moundsview school district, in the suburbs of St. Paul. That makes sense given known socioeconomic characteristics of that school district, but wow. I have met a math teacher from that district (my son took an enrichment course from him on weekends last year at another site), but I'm not at all sure how typical that level of test-taking is in that school district. </p>
<p>At the time the three girls' scores were reported in the local press, the autumn of their senior years, none were sure where they would apply for college. They must all be college students now--I wonder where.</p>
<p>jym626, I'm not JHS, but I'll answer your question. 4836 would be 2400 on the SAT I, 800 each on 3 SAT IIs, and a 36 on the ACT.</p>
<p>awwww shucks Berurah when I saw this thread I figured it must have been one of your kids! :D</p>
<p>Thanks, Diane. I get it!</p>
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awwww shucks Berurah when I saw this thread I figured it must have been one of your kids!
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<strong><em>ANDI</em></strong><em>!!!!!!! GREAT to "see" you! *</em><em>ROFLMAO</em>*....yeah, I'd like to claim it was my 8-year-old, but NOPE!! ;)</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>I wonder if there have been any studies done by the college board regarding which versions of the tests taken, and the scores, and I am not just referring the the perfect scores</p>
<p>For instance, say you have an extra reading experimental section and someone else has math, how do those compare</p>
<p>This is not to by any means diminish the accomplishments of those that do well, its just curiosity on my part....love stats and analysis...</p>
<p>for instance, of all the kids that got 2400, was they a pattern in the tests they took...just wondering</p>
<p>boy and if it wasn't enough of a hook just being from Kansas! ;)</p>
<p>The kid is amazing in a sense that he wanted to do ACT again for the third time (32, 34 for the furst try), and was willing to take SAT too. Actually, it may not help him too much since some schools might think he is a little too obsessed with his test scores which matters little after someone has already achieved a high, but not perfect, scores.</p>
<p>It's interesting that today there is an active thread by a Minnesota parent about her son's disappointment in not getting into an Ivy. I'm 99 percent sure her son went to the same school that had the three girls with perfect scores just two years earlier. It's probably a good idea for high school students to be very aware of what bar their classmates have set before they apply to college.</p>
<p>I was hoping it was a berurah kid too!</p>
<p>I know another Minnesota student, from Bloomington, who aced both tests in 2002 or 2003. Frankly, this doesn't seem like national news to me. Did the writing section really make it that much harder to do?</p>
<p>I know one girl who aced both tests from MOunds View got full rides to Harvard and MIT and she went to MIT. Another girl went to wheaton.</p>
<p>silverturtle did the same, just last year.</p>
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<p>Didn’t we have a heated argument about this in recent past?</p>