That One Kid

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<p>Yeah I do not believe the 3rd grade 2400. Especially because the SAT only introduced the writing section in 2005.</p>

<p>But yeah, I don’t know that “one kid.” In fact, I’ve never met anyone that I would consider a genius. Maybe that’s because I’m the genius. But I’m pretty sure that’s not it.</p>

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My bad, I knew he got a perfect score so I thought it was 2400. I guess he got a 1600 then.</p>

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<p>Tis very trues. You know it!</p>

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<p>I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that he’s 15. Based on this, we know that the person you described took the SAT 12 years ago and received a 2400. Perhaps his genius transcended the powers of the College Board so that he took the new version implemented as of 2005 in 1998.</p>

<p>On topic: The “one kid” described by OP sounds like me, when I was 5.</p>

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<p>Did you not read the post afterwards? I know he got a perfect score so I assumed it was a 2400. However, I guess it was a 1600 since they had a different score. All I know is that he got the maximum number of points possible.</p>

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<p>I missed it, anyways, I still am extremely incredulous. Surely a feat such as that would have garnered national attention and spawned a plethora of internet/news articles. Unless you have concrete evidence to support it, I’m inclined to doubt that such a kid exists.</p>

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<p>I’m skeptical as well. The youngest person to score a 1600 was back in 1999. And she was an 8th grader.</p>

<p>[Local</a> News | Girl Gets Perfect Score On SAT Test – 12-Year-Old Determined To Remain Regular Kid | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“Page not found | The Seattle Times”>Girl Gets Perfect Score On SAT Test -- 12-Year-Old Determined To Remain Regular Kid | The Seattle Times)</p>

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<p>bob, the humble comment was not directed at you, seeing as you weren’t talking about yourself, rather you were talking about other people</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Perfect SAT in 3rd grade, learning to read at 1 year old, and Laplace transformations at 5 years old: proof or it’s BS.</p>

<p>EDIT: I just read the article about Vino. She’s impressive, and it’s sad to see how strongly academic levels correlate with levels of expected maturity. It’s icing on the cake of my criticism of American academics.</p>

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<p>you know bobtheboy is joking right? ;)</p>

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<p>Yeah, but in a way I want it to be true.</p>

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They’re not all the same person.
Laplace transforms guy:
[Kim</a> Ung-yong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong]Kim”>Kim Ung-yong - Wikipedia)
It only lists calculus or something here but I remember reading something about Laplace transforms as well.</p>

<p>There was another person who learned to read at 1.5 years, William James Sidis (wikipedia him).</p>

<p>Also, I have heard of a girl who finished real analysis at 7 years of age.</p>

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No way. There must be tons of 7th graders that get perfect scores. I’m pretty sure some go to my school. The SAT isn’t that hard of a test; if kids can get to USAMO in 3rd grade (Michael Ma, google him - I don’t know him so it’s not a privacy issue), they would have no problem scoring perfects on an SAT…
It’s possible that it was unofficial/unreleased SAT, I don’t know any specifics. All I know is that he got a perfect score in 3rd grade.</p>

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<p>It’s possible I suppose. But who honestly cares of SAT scores?</p>

<p>They’d probably be spending their time doing more useful things.</p>

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<p>The thing with these so-called perfect people is that many of them like someone already said, try sooo hard to exude this perfect, I excel at everything personality. In the end, once we’re out of school, honestly there won’t be a difference between people. In school there’s competition for better grades and very concrete things that qualify how successful a person is such as top grades, SAT, athlete star, music prodigy etc… But when we’re 35 no one cares about those things and that once perfect person who everybody either wanted to be or be best friends with is just a normal person. Especially in college where you see hundreds of “that one kid”.</p>

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<p>He totally did not fulfill people’s expectations for him.</p>

<p>But I feel like he was happy, writing all those books about which no one seems to have cared :).</p>

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<p>That’s the thing, though. He is genuinely a great person and everyone loves him. I seriously do not know one person that dislikes him. I am certain he’s destined for great things. I don’t think he tries to exude that personality, but he just does excel at everything. He never brags or boasts but it’s well known that he’s good at pretty much everything, and I don’t know anyone who resents him for it but we rather all look up to him as a model student. I don’t think he’s done anything wrong in his life.</p>

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<p>There’s probably zero to two such people a year.</p>

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<p>The reason kids don’t get perfect scores on SAT when they are younger is that they have it is a long test and ten-year-olds have short attention spans.</p>

<p>As for “that one kid” I don’t know anyone like that. There is one person who is exceptional in one subject area: math/hard sciences, english, social sciences, philosophy and classics.</p>

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<p>I love that one kid. [s]he is the best, although they don’t have 2400 SAT’s so maybe they aren’t that one kid</p>