For the first time I know someone that made a perfect score. Not sure how common this is, I heard it's about 1:2,000,000.

Do any of you know someone that accomplished such a feat? Would this get a free-ride to his college of choice?

Not that it matters, but he is home schooled.

Iron Claw said:

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For the first time I know someone that made a perfect score. Not sure how common this is, I heard it's about 1:2,000,000.

Do any of you know someone that accomplished such a feat? Would this get a free-ride to his college of choice?

Not that it matters, but he is home schooled.

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I know 4 or 5 kids that have done so. It's impressive.

Nope.

BU only offers free tuition for National Merit Finalists based off the PSAT. We have a kid in my son's grade that made a perfect score on both the SAT and the PSAT.

Yeah, I would think the scholarship deal would depend on whether the school really looks at ACT -- many don't. Of course, if he can make that, he should be able to do well on SAT as well.

I've known people who made perfect on one section of the ACT, but never on all of them. That's really pretty impressive. Someone should offer a significant scholarship based on that given the high weight schools put on these tests.

tommie said:

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Iron Claw said:

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For the first time I know someone that made a perfect score. Not sure how common this is, I heard it's about 1:2,000,000.

Do any of you know someone that accomplished such a feat? Would this get a free-ride to his college of choice?

Not that it matters, but he is home schooled.

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I know 4 or 5 kids that have done so. It's impressive.

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Agree.

I mighta/coulda/woulda had a perfect score back in the day until after about 2 hours I turned the page and the the section title was "Physics".

I thought it had something to do with 6th period P.E. class.

I have a friend and both his sons made 2400 on the SAT. I believe one is at Carnegie Mellon and the other is at Cal-Tech.

I have a student right now that has a 1580 on the important parts of the SAT and a perfect ACT.

While I agree that it's perfectly possible for a home schooled kid to every bit as college ready and apt as anyone else, colleges can have a hard time seeing it that way.

The perfect score is impressive. However, colleges are increasingly not looking at numbers - mostly because so many prospective candidates have good enough numbers.

Unless the home schooler posts measurables in recognized and accredited modules, the college may not take the time to evaluate them on par with other high school classes (I'm assuming that a kid that can post a perfect ACT score has very high high school marks as well).

Even more, colleges read the dreaded "outside activities" very closely. They want to see participation in activities outside of school - especially those with community service interests.

My daughter is a high school junior this year. I'm getting an education into how different things are since Texas sent me my application mostly filled out! =) Even the state schools are flooded with more than they can fill, and they have laws in place dictating most of their enrollment. It absolutely sucks that an institution established to educate the citizens of Texas turns away most of those citizens, but that's a different post!

I'm there as well.

Good news is, the innerned has been a terrific leveler in terms of educational opportunities. Kids get the material faster and they can increase their pace of learning. Barriers are falling.

Bad news is, big institutions of higher education sometimes get in the way and yeah, we are rationing the experience for reasons of politics I find very troubling.

I graduated with a girl who got a perfect score on the SAT.

And she was only 3rd in our class.....

Iron Claw said:

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For the first time I know someone that made a perfect score. Not sure how common this is, I heard it's about 1:2,000,000.

Do any of you know someone that accomplished such a feat? Would this get a free-ride to his college of choice?

Not that it matters, but he is home schooled.

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It is definitely impressive, but nowhere near the odds you have heard. It depends on the year, but it is more like 1:1500 or so. I know a couple of people who have done it. Multiple kids from Midway High in Waco have done it over the years, and I know of a California high school that had 10 in 1 year. He will get in almost automatically a lot of places, and he may get a free ride at many of them, but upper tier schools look for well rounded kids. They are looking for future leaders, not just bright kids who are good test takers. Not only will he not necessarily get a free ride to the college of his choice, but kids with a 36 will get some rejections if they aren't otherwise what the school is looking for. If the college of his choice is a state school in Texas or Oklahoma, chances are that he's in and getting a free ride. The elite universities, however, have a lot of kids with 34-36 scores competing for spots, and all the other intangibles come into play.

My rule of thumb with the students I've observed is 31+ ACT and a good GPA and activities will begin to get $. Below that, not much $. A 36 ACT and a good GPA should get you considered at most elite institutions, but you would be better off taking the $ elsewhere. As mentioned, some schools prefer the SAT/PSAT/National Merit, etc. The person in question, however, could easily get a full ride at private school looking to improve its academic reputation. (Think OBU, MHBU, etc.)

High test scores are more commonplace because we teach to the tests.

Gold Tron said:

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BU only offers free tuition for National Merit Finalists based off the PSAT. We have a kid in my son's grade that made a perfect score on both the SAT and the PSAT.

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We will gladly take free tuition.

midgett said:

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I have a friend and both his sons made 2400 on the SAT. I believe one is at Carnegie Mellon and the other is at Cal-Tech.

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So a perfect score is 2400 SAT, and BU student avg is 1265. Hummmm.
I didn't realize a perfect score is that high.

midgett said:

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I have a friend and both his sons made 2400 on the SAT. I believe one is at Carnegie Mellon and the other is at Cal-Tech.

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So a perfect score is 2400 SAT, and BU student avg is 1265. Hummmm.
I didn't realize a perfect score is that high.

BUrbon said:

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midgett said:

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I have a friend and both his sons made 2400 on the SAT. I believe one is at Carnegie Mellon and the other is at Cal-Tech.

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So a perfect score is 2400 SAT, and BU student avg is 1265. Hummmm.
I didn't realize a perfect score is that high.

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Perfect is 1600. Used to be 1600 then went to 2400, then went back to 1600 again.