Well, actually, I didn't - I scored 1490 (730 verbal, 760 math) in the fall of 1984, and that was on an OU game day while the Pride of Oklahoma was playing a pre-game concert just outside the testing room door. I've therefore always claimed a distraction allowance.

I had heard that in 1995, the College Board "recentered" the SAT grading scale, boosting the scores so that the average 1990s college-bound high-school senior would score a 500, the mid-point of the 200-800 scale. I didn't know until today that this recentering means my pre-1995 score of 1490 is now equivalent to a perfect 1600 on the SAT. I have a friend who bragged on me once that he beat me on the test by scoring a 1520 - but he did that in 1997. On the scale of my days, he made a 1440.

Hee hee hee.