Bush higher SAT score than John Kerry (vanity)

Freedictionary ^ | 10-9-2004 | Me

[SideoutFred]

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20people%20by%20SAT%20score

Bush 1206 Kerry 1190

:rollin

Here is what we also know from New Yorker Magazine and UPI in articles from January of 2004.

-- Bush's SAT scores are higher than Bill Bradley's, Paul Wellstone's, and John Kerry's.

-- Bush scored a 1206 on his SAT, 566 of 800 on verbal and 640 of 800 on math. [Since the SAT's scale has since been "recentered," Bush's score is more like a 1300 today.]

-- Bush's verbal score would place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 93rd to 97th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used.

-- His math score would also place him between the 84th and 92nd percentile of college-bound students, or the 94th to 98th percentile of ALL high-school seniors taking the exams, the percentile usually used.

-- Using one method to extract IQ's from these SAT scores, Bush's IQ would be somewhere between 124 and 137. Hardly a dunce, that's at least in the top six percent of Americans.

-- We all hear of Bush's supposed college mediocrity, but in reality his "worst" courses were two C-minus scores. Accounting for grade inflation, Bush's worst grades are around today's B-minuses.

Recentered SAT: 1300 IQ: 124-137 Stupid: Definately not.

[aft_lizard]

I am the same, may IQ which was recently tested scored 160 of course it was the VA so I am not certain how exact they are. But anyways I tend to get ahead of myself or overthink a question, being exact is not my strong suit. Many tiames when I write I tend to race ahead in it, by the time I am finished I may have written one illegible sentence that may have originally was meant to be a paragraph or a whole dissertation, at least my mind told me it was.

[Robert_Paulson2]

I would imagine most freepers are on the upper side of the bell curve. The addiction to constant and up to date information is actually an indicator of people who are not getting enough to process in their normal day to day activities.

The stupidest freeper would very likely be around 110.
Some of them, I am confident, are in the upper 170 range.

Birds of a feather so to speak.

[commish]

UGH Fat fingers... 1450... DOH!!!

[kk22tt]

Thanks for saying something with which lots of people can identify. Like your FR profile, too.

[Xcoastie]

this is idiotic

Can't you just hear all the synapses flexing and posturing all of a sudden?

[soccer4life]

Great find.

[Poincare]

Got 1570 in 1961. Beat the Unibomber. Where did it all go?

[Paleo Conservative]

Bush 1206 Kerry 1190

Would either score get into an Ivy League school these days? Just about everyone I know who was white and went to an Ivy Leage School got at least a 1400 on the SAT.

[SideoutFred]

Keep in mind that not all scores on that page are verified. My understanding is that Kerry will not release his.

I have no DOUBT if his scores were higher, he would have released them already.

At the end of the day does it mean anything? Of course not. But I tire of hearing the RATs bash this man as if he's some mentally challenged person. The guy has a lot of smarts and a ton of STREET SMARTS, something Kerry wouldn't have if Theresa paid for them.

[Eva]

I have read that Kerry's GPA was lower than Bush's also. I have read that the reason that Kerry joined the Naval reserve was because he was turned down for grad school and the draft board wouldn't let anyone with a 1-A leave the country (to study in France).

[pcgTheDestroyer]

I guess that Friday night of partying before taking the SAT on a Saturday didn't help after all - my (1991) SAT scores were 1240, while my IQ is between 138 and 145 (informal tests only). Oh well, if I thought intelligence were that important in the presidency, I would abstain from voting altogether. But *wisdom*... Bush has that in spades, and that's the key to leadership.

[DennisR]

"Hehe -- I spanked both of them --- 1550 -- 730 Math 720 Verbal."

Okay, I'll be a wise guy here: 730 + 720 = ???

[chaosagent]

ping

[SideoutFred]

Would either score get into an Ivy League school these days? Just about everyone I know who was white and went to an Ivy Leage School got at least a 1400 on the SAT. No way. Ivy League kids today are 1450+ scores.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Aw stoppit! We all know that Bush family influence and power, warped the sats in Georges favor, while poor little John Kerry, the bastard son of a poverty stricken share cropper, who died before little Johnnie was even concieved, had to claw his way out of poverty, the old fashioned way-By marrying rich widows.

[freestyle]

I got 790 verbal.

(let's not talk about math) ;)

[Post Toasties]

This is terrible news for all the Al Bore supporters who were going on and on in 2000 how critically important it was to vote for the candidate with the higher SAT score.

Now they cannot possibly vote for somebody who is more stupid than GWB:)

I got a 770 Math SAT score when I took it at age 16 but didn't do so well in English, getting a 660 there.

[freestyle]

Busted!

[Post Toasties]

This is terrible news for all the Al Bore supporters who were going on and on in 2000 how critically important it was to vote for the candidate with the higher SAT score.

Now they cannot possibly vote for somebody who is more stupid than GWB:)

I got a 770 Math SAT score when I took it at age 16 in 1970 but didn't do so well in English, getting a 660 there.

[TomGuy]

Hehe -- I spanked both of them --- 1550 -- 730 Math 720 Verbal

My math is a bit weak, but doesn't that add up to 1450?

In new math, closies count as correct answers.

[Althought I have to agree that that seems more at 'fuzzy math'.]