Does anybody know what GW Bush's SAT scores were?

Question

I'm just wondering, because he seems far too stupid to have been accepted at Yale. Why do I say this? Well, his butchery of the English language is well-documented. I always figured he got in as a "legacy", kind of like Flounder in Animal House. But I could be wrong. Maybe he just has a speech impediment. Please enlighten me if you have any information. Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't want to know...what if they're better than mine....???

Well....I just read Scarlett's answer....doggone he did beat me....are you happy...now I feel terrible....that's alright...I'll be ok...tomorrow's another day...

well....time has passed and I'm still bummed about that. I can however speak in public. Ha...knew I was better at something...

Answer 2

566 Verbal and 640 Math for a total score of 1206.
Gore had a 1355

Answer 3

Bush's score was 1206. A little higher than Kerry, a little lower than Gore. This was back in the early sixties before his father was that powerful. Besides, if I was going to buy my score, I'd ask for 1400 at least. Note that Gore and Kerry's parents where rich and powerful at the time. One could say that their were bought and paid for also.

Answer 4

There are no longer any "professionals" at guessing the IQ's of human beings that have now no longer taken normed exams. persons with IQ's of ninety one do no longer earn Harvard MBA's. George Bush's SAT score was once 1206, which placed him interior the 83rd percentile (in user-friendly terms sixteen% scored larger). that's now no longer Mensa high quality, in spite of if that's now no longer shabby the two. The SAT should not be an IQ test, in spite of if SAT scores have a severe (.80) correlation to IQ. the numerous presidents whose scores have been guessed incorporate men whose IQ's have been formally confirmed. President Kennedy had an IQ of 119; the sua dissant professionals guessed 174. in protecting with the object, this guess grew to become into regular on one million) his scholarly achievements (he graduated sixty fifth out of one hundred ten in his severe college classification); 2) writings that he wrote on my own (Profiles in braveness grew to become into as quickly as often ghosted with the aid of means of Theodore Sorensen), etc. Does bill Clinton particularly have an IQ of 182? If there have been information that bill Clinton had an IQ in this type, you ought to in all probability have heard all approximately it. For assessment, Albert Einstein's person IQ grew to become into as quickly as in simple terms over one hundred sixty, and Linus Pauling's grew to become into 147. The qualifying score for Mensa is approximately 132. the common severe college grad has an IQ of a hundred and five; the common college grad, one hundred fifteen. President Nixon had an IQ of 143; the pros guessed one hundred and 55. i might wish that graduate pupils of philosophy have a greater trouble-free of "information" than the Bakersville training service has. i might wish additionally that they are able to correctly known a hatchet pastime.

Answer 5

Gore failed out of college. Bush did not. Both are from wealthy political families. So what exactly is your point?

Answer 6

sat 1206

Answer 7

I imagine that without his father's intervention, he might have set the Guiness record for lowest SAT score.

Answer 8

I am sure those documents have been ceized and destroyed or labeled top secret by now.

Answer 9

Higher than Kerry's or Gore's.

Answer 10

He has a 91 IQ and he, or the college could Care less about Bush's Sat's! He was an automatic admit because of dad!

Tell me, how does a 1.8 GPA graduate of Yale get into Harvard Graduate School of Business when Harvard turns away people with 4.0 GPA's? Is that Quota's for the Rich?

There, there. Let's take this one step at a time.

(1) Is George W. Bush stupid? We have pretty good data here. In 1999 the NewYorker obtained a copy of the future president's Yale transcript and revealed that he'd had a C average in college and, more interestingly, scored 1206 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)--566 on the verbal and 640 on the math.

To find out how this score stacked up, I called Educational Testing Service, publisher of the SAT, and learned that in 1994, SAT scores had been "re-centered." To offset the steady downward drift of test scores over the years, the scoring scale was adjusted upward so that the mean score for both math and verbal was again 500 (the midpoint on a scale of 200 to 800). Those who took the test before 1994 are now entitled to add a prescribed amount to their scores to see how they compare to students today. Having made the necessary adjustment, Little Ed announced, "I got 800 on my verbal! I'm a direct beneficiary of the stupidity of the American public!" Doing the same for Bush gives him 640 on both verbal and math, good enough for 88th percentile on the verbal and 86th in math were he entering college now. Those scores may not be as high as mine, of course, or even Al Gore's (625 verbal, 730 math unadjusted), but they ain't bad.

Then again, I recall having seen a college guide circa 1970 that listed the average SAT for Yale freshmen as about 670 in verbal, 705 in math. So Bush was well below average for his class. He must have written a great essay.

(2) Is Bush the stupidest president? Doubtful, but here the data is lacking. You can get a book called The Intelligence of Dogs but not The Intelligence of Presidents. I refrain from the obvious jokes. The best I could come up with was a 1926 list in which intelligence researcher Catharine M. Cox estimated the IQs of 300 famous people based on their achievements in childhood and early adulthood. Presidents ran the gamut from John Quincy Adams (165) to Thomas Jefferson (150) to Ulysses Grant (125). She didn't single out stupid presidents, but near the top of everyone's list you're sure to find Warren G. Harding, probably the nation's least competent chief executive, who described himself as "a man of limited talents from a small town. . . . I don't seem to grasp that I am president." Among presidents since FDR, political scientist Fred I. Greenstein (Presidential Difference: Leadership Style From FDR to Clinton) cites Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan as being "marked by cognitive limitations," although even detractors would concede they had their gifts.

Smarts aren't easy to judge. Greenstein gives John F. Kennedy high marks for brains, but according to biographer Thomas C. Reeves (author of the infamous A Question of Character), Kennedy as a kid scored a less-than-brilliant 119 on the Otis Intelligence Test and graduated 65th out of 110 at Choate. And remember Bill Bradley, who everybody considered brainy but boring? His verbal SAT score, according to Slate: just 485.

(3) As for alcoholic presidents . . . define alcoholic. According to The Health of the Presidents (1994) by John M. Bumgarner, the following were heavy drinkers: Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce (died of cirrhosis), James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson (appeared drunk at the inauguration in 1865), Ulysses S. Grant, and Chester A. Arthur. The next edition may include George W., who had that 1976 drunk driving conviction. Regarding other substance abuse . . . does it count if you don't inhale?

EXCUSE ME, NOBODY gets into Harvard with a 1.8 GPA except the rich, and Kerry's parents were not rich!

John Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. His father, Richard, volunteered in the Army Air Corps and flew DC-3's and B-29's as a test pilot during World War II. His mother, Rosemary, was a lifelong community activist and devoted parent. She was a Girl Scout leader for 50 years, and one of her proudest possessions was her 50 year Girl Scout pin. She was an environmentalist and a community activist.

Not long after John Kerry was born, the family settled in Massachusetts. Growing up there, his parents taught him the values of service and responsibility and the blessings of his Catholic faith, lessons John Kerry carries with him to this day.

Because his father was a Foreign Service Officer in the Eisenhower administration, John Kerry traveled a lot when he was young. On these trips, he learned firsthand what makes America a leader in the world - our optimism and our democratic values. And he learned that nations across the world share many common goals and that the best way to achieve them is through building strong alliances side by side with America’s military might.

As he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, "it was the right thing to do." He believed that “to whom much is given, much is required.” And he felt he had an obligation to give something back to his country. John Kerry served two tours of duty. On his second tour, he volunteered to serve on a Swift Boat in the river deltas, one of the most dangerous assignments of the war. For his leadership, courage, and sacrifice under fire, he was decorated with a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V, and two Purple Hearts.

Gore's Father was a Senator, not a congressman, vice-president, president and rich from his parents who was dealing with the Nazi's!