RChildress107
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LOL, I'm not much younger than you and while I didn't hit 1600 myself -- fuck the English comp part -- I know 5 kids that hit 1600 from RJ Reynolds, Tabor, and West combined. And there could have been more. I've never been a social butterfly.
I graduated from one of the toughest high schools in the country in 1996 (University High in Tucson, AZ...was consistently ranked top 10 in national rankings), and my graduating class was either the first or 2nd year of the re-centered test scores. We had at least 10 kids score a 1600 in a class of 150. Prior classes would have anywhere from 1-3 kids get a 1600. The scoring got dramatically easier in the mid 90's and cheapened a perfect score.
Not to call bullshit, but...
The percentage of students that got a perfect score pre-1995 was around .002 percent. If a million kids took the test each year that's around 20 that would get a 1600. Having multiple kids from one school score a 1600, or consistently having at least one student score a 1600 pre-1995 would be highly improbable.
They also didn't dumb down the test in 1995, but just recalibrated the scoring to avoid the result of a student getting all of the questions right yet still not getting a perfect score.
NYT article about the changes