ACT/SAT scores: football players vs students (30 years ago)

[Armybrat 40,845]

[DalTxHornFan 3,101]

2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Look at the all the big brains at Rice!

What comes out of a Chinaman's ___?  Rice, rice, rice!

[ButtFumble 5,179]

ou football SAT 759  looks like the lowest

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

LOL unless you are top 6% and just want to go the liberal arts route (ie no business, engineering, etc) an 1104/24 will get dirt kicked in your face at Texas these days.  

[Fastbreak 3,985]

LOL unless you are top 6% and just want to go the liberal arts route (ie no business, engineering, etc) an 1104/24 will get dirt kicked in your face at Texas these days.  

The scales have changed. Current gen couldn’t handle real scores or grades.

[mchookem 16,336]

Stanford athletes have always been impressive.

[Helobious 9,454]

I took the SAT in that weird window where they switched to 2400 scale, and got a 1950. Makes me feel like I tested off the charts, love telling people that score. I mean no one has ever asked but I still tell them. /csb

[Tex Pete 20,354]

4 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

LOL unless you are top 6% and just want to go the liberal arts route (ie no business, engineering, etc) an 1104/24 will get dirt kicked in your face at Texas these days.  

An 1100 in 1990 was much higher than an 1100 today. They have revised the scale several times since. 

[ClubWhatever 12,144]

Water is wet

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

An 1100 in 1990 was much higher than an 1100 today. They have revised the scale several times since. 

They recentered in 95. It would be a little over 1200 today.

[Tex Pete 20,354]

The only two schools I applied to were Texas and Rice. I scored higher than the Texas average and lower than the Rice average, which was 1300 in 1990. I only ever considered Texas.

8 or 9 of the top 15 in my HS class went to aggy, and I was the only one who went to Texas. The t-shirt fan effect was real at the time. 

[Guest]

Went in the Marine Corps in June of 89.

That SAT/ACT comparison would be high comedy.  LOL

[YChang 3,444]

UC-systems about to or dropping SAT/ACT requirements…. Wonder how long rest of the country follow.

[Js1 85,337]

4 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

The scales have changed. Current gen couldn’t handle real scores or grades.

This you?

 

[Harrison Bergeron 1,798]

6 minutes ago, YChang said:

UC-systems about to or dropping SAT/ACT requirements…. Wonder how long rest of the country follow.

[Jkwellborn 6,702]

Went in the Marine Corps in June of 89.
That SAT/ACT comparison would be high comedy.  LOL

What’s your favorite flavor of crayon?

[YChang 3,444]

2 minutes ago, Harrison Bergeron said:

Eh… I test horribly so I would totally benefit, lol. 

[conVINCEd 21,469]

My college admission process consisted of taking the SAT the Saturday  after the last day of school my junior year with a massive hangover (thanks mom for scheduling it that day), and getting a postcard in the mail a few weeks later from UT asking me what I wanted to major in.  I checked business and returned it the next day.  Next time I gave it any thought was when I had to schedule my orientation session.  1992.  Simpler times.

[Disco Missile 456]

10 minutes ago, slorch said:

Went in the Marine Corps in June of 89.

That SAT/ACT comparison would be high comedy.  LOL

I joined the USAF in '99. We both picked the right time to join, if hot sand is your thing. 😄

I scored great on the ASVAB and AFOQT, and much like my SAT scores, no one ever cared 

[Harrison Bergeron 1,798]

2 minutes ago, YChang said:

Eh… I test horribly so I would totally benefit, lol. 

Name doesn't check out.

Edited January 8, 2022 by Harrison Bergeron

[Disco Missile 456]

11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

This you?

 

CLEARLY, it's the OP.

No, literally, look.

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

Name doesn't check out.

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

What’s your favorite flavor of crayon?

Periwinkle?

Trust me, there's plenty of cross-branch shit-talking in my house.  I love it.

[BlakeOfTheYear 17]

My youngest brother got denied at UT with a 30 ACT score... 

[ousux 5,597]

Lol at aggy lower than TCU and only 2 points better than Tceh.

[Jkwellborn 6,702]

Periwinkle?
Trust me, there's plenty of cross-branch shit-talking in my house.  I love it.

I’ve had a fair amount of family join the Marines. My older brother was. I see the crayon thing pretty regular on Facebook. Try to share it with him all the time.

[markstanco 12,577]

An 1100 in 1990 was much higher than an 1100 today. They have revised the scale several times since. 

I took the SAT for fun in 90. No idea what I made, but my mom could probably tell me. ACT was high enough.

Didn’t you need a minimum as an athlete on ACT a 15? That seems like the number I recall.

[Horn80 6,122]

24 minutes ago, markstanco said:

I took the SAT for fun in 90. No idea what I made, but my mom could probably tell me. ACT was high enough.

Didn’t you need a minimum as an athlete on ACT a 15? That seems like the number I recall.

May be wrong but thought it was 20 or 25 in 1970s?

[Knoxtnhorn 5,976]

2 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

My college admission process consisted of taking the SAT the Saturday  after the last day of school my junior year with a massive hangover (thanks mom for scheduling it that day), and getting a postcard in the mail a few weeks later from UT asking me what I wanted to major in.  I checked business and returned it the next day.  Next time I gave it any thought was when I had to schedule my orientation session.  1992.  Simpler times.

Whoa.  Almost the exact same here.  Knowing I was already accepted to UT going into my senior year of high school was not a good thing.  I damn near f'd up and skipped so many classes as to not be allowed to walk.

[conVINCEd 21,469]

21 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Whoa.  Almost the exact same here.  Knowing I was already accepted to UT going into my senior year of high school was not a good thing.  I damn near f'd up and skipped so many classes as to not be allowed to walk.

Same, but I had blackmail material on the principal so I pretty much did whatever the fuck I wanted.

[deadshank 24,653]

Newspaper typesetter needs to be fired.  Line up and center those columns already!!

[TexArcher 37,774]

3 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:

What’s your favorite flavor of crayon?

Purple.  Duh.

[Braff Zacklin 13,573]

6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Purple.  Duh.

 

[TwiceHorn 31,471]

1 hour ago, Horn80 said:

May be wrong but thought it was 20 or 25 in 1970s?

In the 80s, either a 21 or 23 was auto admit, like an 1100 on the SAT.  So I doubt that.

[Horn80 6,122]

2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

In the 80s, either a 21 or 23 was auto admit, like an 1100 on the SAT.  So I doubt that.

Yep, you are right after reading your comment.

[CTC2 2,797]

In the early to mid 80's you automatically got in with an 1100 on the SAT.  Parents made me take it in the 10th grade.  Made 1100 on the dot.  I don't remember doing much high school homework after that.

Edited January 9, 2022 by CTC2

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9 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Look at the all the big brains at Rice!

What comes out of a Chinaman's ___?  Rice, rice, rice!

Owls were close to Stanford, but just short in 2nd place.

[conVINCEd 21,469]

I also scored high enough in the 7th grade to qualify for an athletic scholarship prior to taking algebra.  That bar wasn’t very high.

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

Yea and this is what I was saying.  An 1104 90-92 translates roughly to something like a 1220, maybe 1230 today.  Again not absolutely but generally you do that and Texas is going to say, "go play intramurals brotha"

Crazy how different it is now.  I got a 1300 flat in 1994 (well 93 when I took it) and UT, the business school etc was never a doubt.  I told my daughter who is a freshman there now (no pics) that I would probably have been kicked to the curb hard today.  

[Slacks 6,821]

1110 checking in.

Always do just enough.

[AUS-97HORN 11,762]

already made a similar post a few weeks ago, but 1110 club checking in as well. 

[Reese Bennett 3,613]

1100 in 1979. Oddly, I hit 1200 on the GRE a few years later.

[Guest]

1130, Junior year, the Saturday morning after Old High/ Rider game. Never took it again. 

Sure wish I would have had some better guidance on school/ military combos and available schollies. I had the same philosophy as Snacks above.

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

I was a better test taker than I was a student when I was young.  HS had been pretty easy, UT kicked my ass around a bit before I settled in.  I don't think the tests are useless and not sure they should be completely eliminated but I also know plenty of examples on both sides of the score range where it didn't mean shit to how good/bad a particular college student was. 

[Harrison Bergeron 1,798]

19 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Like math. Punctuality. And the SAT and ACT amirite.

Edited January 9, 2022 by Harrison Bergeron

[Doc Reeves 6,434]

I took the ACT because they offered it the earliest and at 16 I had important parties lined up to try and score under age Baptist poon. Crushed the test. Batted .000 in the poon dept.

Baptists man.

[Doc Reeves 6,434]

5 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

1100 in 1979. Oddly, I hit 1200 on the GRE a few years later.

 

[hornian 5,219]

I thought this was going to be some sort of CTE effect thread, but turns out it’s just that people like to brag about test scores from decades ago. 

[Armybrat 40,845]

11 minutes ago, hornian said:

I thought this was going to be some sort of CTE effect thread, but turns out it’s just that people like to brag about test scores from decades ago. 

Not me...

 

[Poolflood 845]

So what's the delta now?