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From The Memory Banks, Celebrity SAT Quotes

 

 

Quotes from 2004 The New York Times story about "The New SAT" (i.e. adding the Essay)

 

Anderson Cooper (Yale, 1989):


'I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking I have to get up and go take the SAT. Having to figure out those math problems, I don't think I'd be up for it again. There was something so strange about the process. You go to a different school. You're in some cavernous room with a bunch of strangers. It added to the foreign nature of it all.'

 

Bill Cosby (Temple University, 1977):

'While taking the College Boards, I found out what I didn't know. I wished that I had studied more. I also wish to God that I had been a more serious student.'' Mr. Cosby says his cumulative score was in the high 300's (or by today's scoring method, high 400's).'

 

Sofia Coppola (California Institute of the Arts, attended 1991-93):

'I hated taking the SAT's. I did terribly, and I'm so happy I never have to do them again.'

 

llustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis

 
3 Comments | posted July 23rd, 2011
 
 
  • Guest

    ha ha honest to god, that's how I feel about this test !! don't understand why the like to torture people this way :) its awful!!!

    • http://www.perfectscoreproject.com Debbie Stier

      I'm a late bloomer.  I've come to love the test (despite that the fact that I find it SO DIFFICULT).  For some reason, in midlife, I've come to love the challenge and would even go so far as to say I find the SAT enjoyable.

      Crazy, I realize ;)

    • http://www.perfectscoreproject.com Debbie Stier

      I'm a late bloomer.  I've come to love the test (despite that the fact that I find it SO DIFFICULT).  For some reason, in midlife, I've come to love the challenge and would even go so far as to say I find the SAT enjoyable.

      Crazy, I realize ;)

 

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