<p>LOL-- someone revived this thread after 5 years. I looked to see who started the thread. Was surprised to see that I did!!!</p>
<p>It appears that the Kansas student referenced in the OP ended up at Princeton.</p>
<p>This thread is FIVE years old. Seems to me if this discussion is to take place, it would be better with a new thread.</p>
<p>Boy graduating this year from son’s high school got a perfect ACT in fall of his junior year, and he will be attending Harvard next year.</p>
<p>A kid from Wisconsin did it in recent years. My son got a 35 on the spring ACT while 15 end of junior year in HS, was supposed to retake his Math subject SAT in fall but retook the whole test (long story, sigh- now ancient history) to get the 2400, after he turned 16. The Midwest Talent Search has had kids with perfect ACT/SAT scores- usually 7th or 8th graders- not sure if any did both the same year.</p>
<p>Errrr… how about half my high school gets perfect SAT/ACT scores. Seriously… it’s not that big of a deal. Where you go to high school does not determine your intelligence.</p>
<p>My coworker’s kid got perfect ACT’s, near perfect SAT’s (790’s) national merit scholarship, and a stunningly high GPA (from a very easy small town high school) and was only offered half tuition at Harvard (chem/premed). He turned down Harvard for Flagship State U 
and a full ride including 4 years undergrad research stipend…</p>
<p>Harvard (and peer schools) do not award merit-based aid. Financial aid at Harvard has nothing to do with high test scores or any other academic criteria or outside accomplishment. Tuition breaks at Harvard are based strictly on the family’s established financial need.</p>
<p>skittlescutie, do you mean that half your high school gets an 800 on one section of the SAT, or a 36 on one section of the ACT? I’d find that plausible. However, there were only about 385 scores of 2400 on the SAT (single sitting, not superscored) in the latest year of released data. Perhaps you go to a very small high school, or you are home-schooled?</p>
<p>Given the age of this thread, I’m surprised that in the original post it didn’t refer to the kid getting a XXXVI on the ACT.</p>
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<p>The problem of stories about fantastic accomplishment is that they are usually … fantastic. What people tell about athletic scholarships on the sidelines of YMCA games are rarely true. The same for the watercooler discussions or what seeps in your local newspaper. </p>
<p>Inasmuch as Harvard accepts about 2,000 students per year and might have an 80 percent yield, you should have few problems finding 10,000 students who turned it down for a state school.</p>
<p>Question - how do you get publicity from it?
How does one ends up in the local newspaper for scoring high?</p>
<p>^^^Regional newspapers can run ads in the HS papers asking kids to come forward and be profiled for academic achievements. Also sometimes they are tipped off by teachers or administrators.</p>
<p>From time to time that yields stories like this: [2</a> siblings, 2 perfect SAT scores](<a href=“http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-01-28/education/24648330_1_perfect-score-advanced-placement-courses-middle-school]2”>http://articles.ocregister.com/2010-01-28/education/24648330_1_perfect-score-advanced-placement-courses-middle-school)</p>
<p>I know kids who got 1600 SAT (before the 2400 change) and 800 on 3 SAT 2’s…they never took the ACT though…but given the past track record wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone who got a 2400 also got a 36 …</p>
<p>2400 isn’t really a huge deal…</p>
<p>It was a bigger deal 5 years ago when the SAT switched from 1600 to 2400 , when they removed the Analogies section and added the Writing section that was once in SAT2.
Out of the first students taking the new test (in May 2005), only 107 received a 2400.</p>
<p>Now in retrespect, it gives many a big yawn.</p>
<p>Yes it is. Look at the percentages who achieve it and you will see. Rare and to also get a 36 is even rarer. Perhaps the “not really a huge deal” comes from the fact that it won’t get you anywhere near perfect scores will as well. Something to have in your memory banks of childhood that no one can take from you- at a point in time you did the best anyone could. A prize only a few will ever have. btw- I hadn’t noticed this was a revival of a 5 year old thread- still a timely topic.</p>