Part of the country? Wow, that has changed. In the 60s it was real clear - state schools ACT private schools SAT - no variation or deviation. Depending on which one you were going to the other was a waste of time.

>From your subsequent post I see that you are more up to date on this than I am. Since I am now in the part of the country that takes the ACT and not the SAT, it has fallen off my radar. The main things I remember are that my scores were good enough to get me into the school I wanted to go to and that one girl in the class ahead of mine nailed both parts for a perfect 1600.
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>Oddly enough, Emily has yesterday and today off due to ACT tests for the juniors. (I would lose some points on the English part for that sentence, LOL). It is now done in school on school days instead of offsite on a Saturday.
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>Emily has a couple of AP tests coming up early next month and then graduation. A month from now she will be out of high school, which amazes me. (It's the reason I encourage the parents of wee ones like KG and Mike C to enjoy every bit of it, because it really does go by in a whoosh). In August she will be off to Madison. Since that is where I wound up graduating from I am pleased, but made sure to leave it to her. She keeps her own counsel and any attempts to talk her into something are likely to backfire. She had a handful of other schools on her short list and wound up falling in love with Madison, as so many do. They had over 32,000 applicants this year, a record.
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>>True, but it also means I'm less impressed when I see scores of current applicants. Besides, in the old days we had to scratch our answers on the tests with pointed sticks we charred in the fire ( and the fire was only available in hi-tech areas )
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>>>I thought they changed the scale, not the rigor of the test. College admissions staff certainly haven't been fooled by the higher looking scores. Standardized test scores are one factor and are compared to those of other applicants, not scores of the past.
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>>>>I think Gore and I took the SATs the same year. ( for the record, I kicked his a** by > 100 points )
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>>>>Worth noting, though, in Al's defense the SATs were retooled in the 80s to raise scores by an average 100 points. ( I think they decided they needed to build self-esteem <g> )
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>>>>>I'm pretty sure there's no danger of his grades being any worse than these!
>>>>>http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
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>>>>>:o)
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>>>>>>>>Apologies to the Grateful Dead for the title --
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>>>>>>>>http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/27/white-house-releases-obama-birth-certificate/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
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>>>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V72qQhm12K8
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>>>>>>>I love it. Especially the way The Donald is taking credit for this great accomplishment.
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>>>>>>>Points to Obama on this one. Someone very clever in his camp decided to just let the crazies run with it and then cut them off at the knees.
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>>>>>>It's hard to imagine anyone having a bigger ego than The Donald. I would love for him to be the Republican nominee, but I'm not going to be that lucky. I have a hunch he will stop doing the presidential tease right around the time his TV show wraps up the current season.
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>>>>>>The best line I have seen about Trump is that it's amazing what you can accomplish starting with only $800 million of your father's money.
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>>>>>>Here is another gem, from Clarence Page's column in the Chicago Tribune today:
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>>>>>>That's why Trump steers attention away from himself, even to the point of raising questions about Obama's college grades. "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible," Trump said in an interview with the Associated Press. "How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records."
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>>>>>>Whew. We can all sleep better tonight knowing Donald is looking into it.

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