Practice (Or Genes) Makes Perfect on the SAT

A 2400? Come on. Seriously? On the SAT?

Apparently so. Eighteen-year-old Will McChesney from South Carolina recently earned himself a perfect score, a 2400.

Last year, 269 kids did the same thing.

This is what I wanna know. What kind of brain do these kids have lodged between their ears? And more importantly, where can I get one?

I mean, I’d call myself pretty smart. I scored high on the ACT, I was valedictorian in high school and carried a 4.0 in undergrad and grad school.

But a 2400? Yeah, not me.

According to McChesney, he took dozens of practice tests after scoring a meager 2,340 the first time he took it (which is already a Yale and Harvard-worthy score).

I really don’t care how many times I’d take a practice SAT test; a perfect score would not follow. Nerves, staying up too late the night before, the guy coughing next to me during the test, my own inability to remember mathematical facts, terrible luck – something would prevent that perfect score from popping up a few weeks later.

Sigh.

But for those geniuses like McChesney, who seem to have it all together, I only have one request (and it isn’t really that big of a deal):

Would you please run for President of the United States when you’re old enough? I’d like someone in the White House who is smarter than I am.

Thanks.

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