Because of that someone else will get the slot. They will take a low score and start adding in how disadvantaged they were and their ethnicity and whatever to get a perfect score plus several points.
A remarkably idiotic lede.
The first two are pure chance. The last is a combination of high basic ability and a great deal of hard work.
Ten bucks says that he becomes a “personal injury” lawyer.
Depending on which source you believe, somewhere between 300 and 1000 kids a year score perfect SATs.
The student who conducted a tour of prospective students through my kid’s preferred university told us his scores, which were 100 points lower that my kid’s scores, but my kid was not admitted. My kid has blue eyes, blond hair, a Christian name and a Welsh surname. Our family has roots in the U.S. since before the Mayflower. The kid with the lower scores was from a foreign country. (And no, it was not Detroit.)
I have known several perfect scorers, strange breed.
“Now, this scholar doesn’t just spend all of his time studying, “music is what takes up most of my time,” Cameron says. He is the principle cellist of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and involved at school as the editor on the school newspaper, a writing advisor in the school’s writing center, senator in the student government, is involved in the math club, and in multiple honor societies.”
Great kid! Maybe he’ll be a role model. I wish him all the best.
This speaks volumes, and no further comment.
I coached CYO basketball for many years. Most kids were from the parish school but occasionally there were kids from private or public school. I only ever coached one kid from GA. He was Black and his parents were loaded - they held the end of season party at their home. Parents were both physicians at Jefferson.