[quote name='dohmai']
So I just wanted to clear that up.. I can speak and write in English! I got a 1520 on my SAT I when it was out of 1600 (before the writing component which changed the score to max 2400 as it is today). I went to Berkeley where I majored in.. you guessed it.. English! Then I attend Columbia University where I received my Master's in.. yep.. English! And three guesses as to what my current profession is... yep I drive a truck!
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:lol: Thanks for clearing that up for me (the 1600 vs 2400 thing). I keep seeing all these what I thought were high scores thrown around (I didn't listen to the podcast so I don't know the source of all of this) and I was somewhat surprised. Of course, to me it is and always has been out of 1600. So, people are talking about 1300 or 1500 out of 2400? That gets you into college nowadays? Really?
Anyway, not much point here except that I did not know the scoring had changed and I'm procrastinating doing my real work. Oh yeah, and I also went to Berkeley and had a similar score (won't say exactly what

). What was odd about the SAT was that I screwed up the first time and retook it - got exactly the same math score, but bumped my verbal by 100. In any case, that was enough to get me into Cal, which, at the time, was virtually free (I hear it is way crazy expensive now). I applied all over the country and did not have to take the ACT - that was kind of an oddball test back then that I was aware of, but wasn't something anyone I knew ever took.
In any case, I'm thinking about this stuff again for the first time in a long time since I have a daughter who is 4 years from college and 4 more kids after her. I may have to sell all my games and systems just to afford one textbook for each of them...