How much did you beat Caribou Barbie's SAT score (841) by?

[11 Bravo]

I exceeded her score by 519 points, AND have eaten at an IHOP, so I have valuable international experience. Me for VP!

(And yes, I know that while SATs are not a true barometer of intelligence, they surely may be indicative of abysmal stupidity. 841?)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. 199 but in the spirit of self-disclosure, I took 2 SAT prep courses to get

familiar with the test.

[motely36]

2. 419...

but I just finished my masters after 6 long years, so I don't think SATs really mean that much

[Best_man23]

3. 309

1150, no test prep.

[JBear]

4. 400 here...

But then again, I can't read.

:sarcasm:


:bounce:

[RichardRay]

5. Dare I admit that I never took it?

Yes, I'm that old, and lived in that rural a place at that time.

[TomInTib]

33. I didn't even know what SAT was until my son took one.

But I never bothered with school, either.

I still wonder why people go to school and end up as prisoners in tall buildings.

When I was a kid, you could learn everything you needed in a library and from the world around you.

And I have never had to have what most people call a "real job".

Never.

[SuperTrouper]

6. I beat her by 549 (Math helped me a lot and speaking Spanish helped find the Latin roots

to figure out the synonyms in the vocabulary section...

[mohc]

7. 609

Mostly on the back of my math score.

[scheming daemons]

8. I beat her by 359.... had exactly 1200

[hughee99]

9. 509. n/t

[damonm]

10. 379.

[vanderBeth]

11. I took the ACT

[karynnj]

18. Interesting point - the west mostly takes the ACT

if that were true back then, she likely didn't even take the SATs. Doesn't Idaho prefer the ACT?

[olkaz]

24. Is that true? Here in Illinois we take the ACT.

At least we did in 1997, and my brother did a couple years ago.

[vanderBeth]

29. I don't think it is west, but rather the midwest.

I know the SAT is still more popular in CA, OR, and WA.

[Left Is Write]

39. She didn't go to high school in Idaho.

[karynnj]

76. The tests you take depend on the colleg you want to go to

I have a daughter at another Idaho school who took the ACT because she applied there - although she also took the SAT. I didn't know what Hawaii's schools prefer.

[Left Is Write]

36. I did too. I took the pSAT my junior year, trying to qualify for a National Merit scholarship.

(I got a National Merit commendation, but not a scholarship.)

My senior year, I took the ACT and got a score of 32.

[ShortnFiery]

57. Same here. The higher scores were "30" overall. It's a different scale.

Anyone know what is the maximum ACT score?

[vanderBeth]

61. 36

[grace0418]

75. 36, but when I took it in 1988, anything 28+ was excellent and 30+ was

outstanding (meaning hardly anyone scored above 30). But more recently my nephew got a 34 and said a few other kids in his school scored that as well. I got a 29 the first time so I took it again to get 30.

[DeepBlueDem]

96. I took the ACT, However I beat her SAT score with My GRE score.

her SAT score 841

My GRE score: V+Q= 1300

Verbal-580
Quantitative-720

[karynnj]

12. This is asinine

1) No one can authenticate the scores
2) The scores were calibrated about a decade ago - so older scores are usually lower. (the reason was that earlier there were about 300 of the top 1600 points that contained just the top 2% of test takers.)

[Kookaburra]

26. Kill-joy

It's fun.

I'm 380 up on her.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. 649... but I'm still poor.

[Labors of Hercules]

20. lord don't I know it.

You beat me by 1 point! :wow:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

35. Let's write an anti-Ayn Rand book called "Atlas Starved"

All the really smart people get fed up and decide to stop holding up the world.

No one notices.

(Though there are a couple fewer arch blogs out there about how the Gawain poet was a woman or arguing that Mark Rothko was a closet neo-classicist.)

[Labors of Hercules]

86. But would that not simply reduce itself to "An Idiots Guide to American Politics, 2001-2008"?

Oh... that great intellects could be put to greater use than that of interpreting art, rather than expressing the enjoyment of it... *sigh*

[dkf]

14. 399

[The Revolution]

15. We take the ACT here

So I never took the SAT :)

[last_texas_dem]

399

But, then again, I don't know how to field dress a moose, so I guess McSame has to stick with Palin...

[MarianJack]

16. 449

700 even verbal, 600 even in math = 1300!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

23. I see why your math score was lower than the verbal

I think that's 459.

Sorry. Not trying to be mean. I just thought it was funny.

[MarianJack]

77. OOOPS!

A big :spank: to me!

PEACE!

[MUAD_DIB]

17. 841 cobined?

[Barrymores Ghost]

19. self-delete

[flowomo]

42. they can't hear you....

they have their stupid turned up too loud. Sigh. Ironically, while bragging how smart they are.

[Barrymores Ghost]

51. self-delete

[Beaverhausen]

47. thanks. I didn't know this story was fake. Plenty of real issues to get her for

:hi:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

21. More than 600 n/t

[leftofcool]

22. Fake document

[Catch22Dem]

25. Never took it, but ended up with a masters degree. LOL (n/t)

[Raven]

27. 756 English, 580 Math. That was in 1964. I got almost the same

scores 4 years later on the GRE's.

[treestar]

28. I have something like 620

And I recall that Dubya's score was close to mine!

So she's not a female Dubya! She's a Dumb Female Dubya.

[Spider Jerusalem]

30. 669

800 verbal, 710 math

[Diane R]

31. I'm mailing this to my sons....they all beat her by at least 500.

[FlyingSquirrel]

32. 499

Drat! just one more point.....

[OmahaBlueDog]

34. I beat her score, but (that said) the test is crap

It has been proven time and time again that it has little correspondence with actual college performance

Although improved over the years, the verbal test is still somewhat culturally biased

I've seen smart people flame out and get bad scores, and I've seen the terminally stupid go to test preparers and come out with scores that make them look like Nobel Prize winners.

[ElboRuum]

37. 539. n/t

[ElboRuum]

41. self-delete.

[tanyev]

64. Hey, me too. Did you copy off of me????

[Cronopio]

38. Caribou Barbie is good. But I go with Lock n' Load Barbie myself. nt

[Zenmaster]

40. 344

And I really didn't take it seriously at the time.

[tledford]

43. Another 519. eom

[ElboRuum]

44. P.S.

Scores at the time she took the test SHOULD be divisible by 10.

Just sayin'

[Barrymores Ghost]

45. self-delete

[11 Bravo]

63. Wow! With that many caps, how can I say anything but ...

LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP! (See, I can be a poster deserving of serious notice and respect, as well.) I have no idea if the score is bogus or not. I saw it on line and now we're having a little bit of fun with it. If we were repukes we would be calling her traitor and urging that she be killed. (And by the way, Barrymore was a notorious scenery chewer. You chose an apt user nme.)

[Stephist]

67. How Many Times Are You Going to Post On A Story...

You don't want anybody else to post on?

[RichardRay]

46. My nephew, a student who worked all summer and

last spring on the campaign, smiles sheepishly when he has to mention his 1595. But I can still go faster on skis than he can and fly a paraglider a LOT further! Take that, you freak!! Frankly, I vote for him for VP over Palin without even slowing down to think about it.

[GoesTo11]

48. She beat me by 41

I only got an 800. Oh, her score was for both parts combined? Never mind.

[NotThisTime]

49. Sadly by 12 year old exceeded her score LAST YEAR in 7th grade... wait til I tell him LOL...

[Perky]

50. 719

yeah I did pretty darn well.

[nuncvendetta]

56. you're my numbers twin!

n/t

[vaberella]

89. Wait....is this when the numbers were 1600 the highest? Cause if that's the case math doesn't

compute. :rofl:

[Perky]

92. It was when the scores we maxed at 1,600

[olkaz]

52. Those of you that took the ACT, here is a conversion table so you can compare to Palin

http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/act-sat-concordance-tables.pdf

I got a 26, which is about 1170-1200. Oh, and Palin's score would have been a 17 on the ACT.

[nuncvendetta]

53. Exceeded her score by 719

800 Verbal, 760 Math. and yes, I'm one of those people who agrees with Biden that it's patriotic for me to have to pay higher taxes.

[jsmirman]

90. Same exact results

in 1990, so under the old metrics...

[Genevieve]

54. by 509 - 1350, here.

[Awsi Dooger]

55. I think I scored 1220

640 and 580. That was 1976 and at the time it seemed like a good score but everyone here seems to have swamped it.

I remember being satisfied with that score, particularly considering the test was early on a Saturday morning and I was dragging. I was a night person, then as now. :)

[NightWatcher]

58. 159 points WHEN I WAS IN THE 8TH GRADE AND TOOK IT

and 439 when I took it Sophmore year.

[nuncvendetta]

59. oooh, good point. we took it in 7th grade to qualify for a summer program.

Beat her SAT score by 189...when I was in 7th grade.

[Tatiana]

60. 549 pts. I want to be Vee Pee!!!!!! n/t

[rvablue]

62. I'm taking personal offense at all this SAT BS on DU....doesn't mean anything!

I know I shouldn't, I'm only one.

But you know what, I did better, but not that much better than Palin SATs.

I went to a high school in a very white, very wealthy and very Republican town. By the time I hit 15, I knew I didn't belong and was tired of trying to fit in. So, I went in search of, far and wide, new friends who I could relate to and have fun with. That being said, I did the bare minimum at school and spent my off hours hanging out with my new black, gay, lower-wage earning, etc. etc. friends.

AND IT MADE ALL OF THE DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!! It turned me into a curious, toleraNT, life experienced young woman. Something that might not haven't happened if SCHOOL HAD BEEN MY LIFE!

Because of my grades and SATs, if I wanted to get into a good college, I had to go to community college just like Palin -- another aspect that has been so diminuized here on DU.

But I went on to matriculate into one of the best statewide institutions in the country and then got a master's at an Ivy League school.

YES! PALIN IS AN IDIOTIC MORON, not because her SATs were low. She is an idiot because she is incurious. She is an idiot because she is filled with hubris and doesn't think there is anything "schooling" or "books" have to teach her. And she is an idiot because she has relied on her right wing religous views, her looks and her ability to mercilessly attack those who have every desirable quality she herself will never attain!

[olkaz]

65. You aren't running for VP

I know exactly what you mean, and reducing one's whole worth to a largely irrelevent metric collected very early on in life is unfair for almost anybody.

But this is for all the marbles. Along with her college hopping, it does represent **something**.

I do have sympathy with her though, because I college-hopped since I was in a bad place back then and didn't graduate. I'll finally be finishing my degree six and a half years behind schedule (was away from school for quite a while) in December. If I eventually run for this country's highest office I feel it would be reasonable for my academic history to be judged.

(although if the thing really is an outright forgery, we all look stupid regardless for even talking about it)

[rvablue]

71. You must ask yourself

Would you feel any differently about Barack Obama if he did poorly in high school, did bad on his SATs, went to community college and then went on to do well at a university and ulimately became what he has become? I would think the answer is NO.

Having multiple posts re: Sarah Palin's SAT scores is the equivalent of the freakin' freepers screaming out Obama's university transcript.

Our country is on the precipice right now. I don't want Sarah Palin not to be VP because she didn't do well on her SATs, I don't want her to VP for who she is and what she believes. I'm sure I could scrape up a few of Pat Robertson's minions here in VA who scored a 1400 (or whatver the top score is) do you think they will be "qualified" to be VP 22 years from now.

Not for me, they will never be, not with the religous extremism, the war mongering and the race/gay/democratic hating indoctrination they are now going through.

With that said, thanks for writing down your story. We couldn't all be scholars at 16, right?

[kevsand]

66. About 480.

I think I was around 1320 on the SAT. I remember being slightly disappointed, because I had a 34 on the ACT.

[tularetom]

68. 512 but that was 50 years ago

I've probably gotten stupider since then.

[BornBlue]

69. Damn

I got a 719 . . .






In fifth grade.

I was chosen as part of a "gifted" program, but I never took it again.

[youthere]

70. 415.

[Teaser]

72. 700

.

[Uzybone]

73. 499

I'm disappointed Obama didn't select me for VP.

[quaker bill]

74. 609

and cooked in italian, french, and chinese restaurants to put myself through college. I have run a business, been president of two (non-profit) corporations and been a manager in the sciences for 20+ years, I am clearly more qualified.

[PghTiny]

78. I got a 1320 (+479) in the spring of '94

This was in my junior year (570 V, 750 M), before the SATs were recentered. My adjusted score would have been a 1400 (+559). I didn't even bother to take the SAT in my senior year, for I figured a 1320 would have been good enough for almost any schooll (it was).

[Bryn]

79. Even Marilyn Monroe beat her by a long shot

A MM fan here :loveya:

[demodonkey]

83. Marilyn was NOT a dumb blonde....

...smart one, she was. Had a thing for Einstein too I hear.

[JI7]

87. Marilyn Monroe was above average when it came to intelligence

so was Jayne Mansfield.

[regnaD kciN]

80. 579

720 V 700 M -- taken in spring 1973

[demodonkey]

81. 609 for me. nt

[NoPasaran]

82. 609

Took it back in late 1973, I think.

And I can see the Moon from from my house! I'm an astronaut!

[marimour]

84. 509

[Alexander]

85. 419.

I took my SAT with a hangover.

[vaberella]

88. Over 400 points without reviewing and with the flu. n/t

[TorchTheWitch]

91. I didn't - I never took the SAT's

I couldn't go to college. Some of us had to work for a living and try to keep a roof over our heads.

I could really give a rat's ass what anyone's test scores were in high school. I don't care if someone was a complete fuck-up when they were a teenager as long as they wised up later in life. Plenty of people who were brainiacs in high school fucked up their lives later and vice versa. Palin is an idiot NOW over 20 years after high school and THAT is all that matters. I don't get this strange obsession with her high school test scores. It's stupid.

[mmbrevo]

93. Only 219 points

But, I only needed to attend 3 different colleges to get my BS.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

94. 549

[frickaline]

95. +459, if those scores actually belong to her.

560 verbal/740 math for me but as you said, SATs are not the measurement I'd use for VP readiness. People can change and decide to apply themselves more to intellectual pursuits later in life. However, I think it is clear to most that this was not the case with Sarah.