Got a 2160 first time I took it and then a 2250 the second time. Both are pretty good scores, but my rank was crap so it didn't really matter. Barely made top 25% when I graduated in 2010.
that sucks, I took 6 my senior year and combined those with my other scores to get 35 hours of incoming credit my freshman year of college. Take as many as you can, you'd be surprised what you'll get credit for. It'll save you a lot of money.
William Gates (an entrepreneur in the IT industry), scored a 1590 on his SAT's but dropped out of college as he found it useless for someone of his aptitude. He is known to mention this during his many philanthropic seminars, where he has donated billions of dollars towards HIV cures and institutions of higher education for those who do not have the confidence to learn on their own. Your real education starts... the day you graduate college. -WMC Clarke
Well it might not measure intelligence, but if you are intelligent you will want to get a good score so you can get into a good school, get a good job etc.
Yes, because we'd all want to have an operation from a brain surgeon who had the confidence to learn on their own rather than go to school, and train for it.
His school is severely stunting students' academic potential by limiting them to only taking two AP classes per year... I'm taking 6 right now and I took 5 last year. Its a great way to earn college credit and save money, or at the very least get ahead.
Innovation and conceptual understanding is key. Medical professions adhere to strict guidelines, but can a brain surgeon understand the cause and effect of lead poisoning from contaminated water leading to a tumor? He only see's the end result and removes that. That is what the Western system adheres to and how they deal with an individual's condition. In the East, it's very much a mind, body, spirit connection. Holistic practices look at the cause rather than the effect, and work to improve the entire body in the process instead of focusing on just the ailment. While this doesn't have much scientific backing, there are countless testimonials of people who have recovered from chronic ailments, foregoing surgery in the process. How many medical issues, after all, are psychosomatic? Wouldn't merging these two, in a regulated fashion, benefit man in the best way? That would require innovation, aptitude and a whole lot of drive. Not just putting in the hours, going through patients as quickly as possible, and regurgitating information from past case studies. The information will always be out there, but rarely in textbooks, given what the current education system wants. It's up to you, FB. And while all that information will overwhelm most, those with high aptitudes relish the chance to attack it head on. They seek the freedom, to innovate.
2250, would have been 1510 if it was just Math and Critical Reading like the old SAT. Having a fancy college on your resume is nice, but it's useless without work experience, which is really the most important thing to have. Too many recent graduates, even from top-ranked colleges, come out with little work experience and realize that to get a job you need work experience, but that it's hard to get work experience if you don't have a job.
This is one of the most pathetic attempts at sounding intellectual I have ever seen. I wish you had said this in person so I could laugh in your face. You know absolutely nothing about medicine and it clearly shows.
Sadly, you've exposed yourself. In playing your trollish persona, you said something silly, and were called on it. There is no rational person including you who would prefer brain surgery from an untrained "surgeon" who simply decided to learn on their own. Then you made up this drivel, hoping it would confuse people because they (according to you) wouldn't know enough about the topics you mentioned here to make sense of what you've said. But your plan backfired, and people were able to see through it, and you've exposed yourself for what you are, and your posts were exposed for exactly what they're worth.
He's hardly trying to hide it. Anyone who'd create a public poll like this in D&D is obviously trolling. I've learned long ago not take anything he writes here seriously, and it becomes more tolerable. Even occasionally funny.
GRE score from February was 162 verbal (90th percentile), 162 math (87th percentile) and 5.5 analytical writing (96th percentile). I studied about an hour total.
I honestly don't remember my score. It had 4 digits and it got me into the school I wanted to go to. After that, who cares?
Lol. If your SAT score of 1100 is anything to go by, it would explain why your reading comprehension is so poor. But since it means nothing, I'll break it down for you once more. I don't want you to get cut open by a guy who isn't formally qualified. I do think the system of medicine as a whole, which you brought up, could benefit from great measures of innovation and several non-technical procedures that lead to a prevention of the effect, in the cause and effect relationship of deteriorating health. Or maybe a more versatile understanding of the effect that can lead to a reduction of symptoms and eventual treatment, because try as we might, I don't think we'll ever have an accurate picture of how each brain signal affects parts of the body. Once the initial steps are made, a regulated form of learning this can be developed. We already know about the huge progress industries like business and technology have made from people bridging gaps between the unknown and known. No reason it can't apply elsewhere... but if you're too focused on micromanaging the smaller picture and embracing only what is known, growth is impossible. To truly grow, we must be able to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
People should try to understand the cause and effect of the disease process? HOLY ****. I'm heading to the med center right now to spread the word
I have never taken it, but I am pretty sure that I would score higher than all of you if I were to take it right now, without any preparation.
I would say the ACT is more meaningful. I saw no value in testing one's memorization of random vocabulary words like the SAT did. I honestly put zero effort into reading that blasted tldr SAT vocab sheet. I'm glad I didn't because at the end it didn't matter.
