evilone

I don't think any employers will say that 35 is too old. They're also federally prohibited from saying any age is too old. In practice, they will think of a 35-year old as somebody that they don't have to train as much, who they can still squeeze 30 years of labor out of.

He is saying that the posters on this forum seem to have self-selected so that it is mostly the high-scorers who posted their scores (assuming people are posting their actual scores honestly) which may give people a distorted idea of how good or bad their scores are. His post is entirely consistent with that comment, as he attained a fairly high score, and thus adds to the parade of high scores.

No you should not panic, because the AWA has only a small impact on your graduate admissions prospects, and graduate school has a minor impact on your life satisfaction, and your life is only one of 7 billion humans, among like 5 million species on just one average sized (on a geometric scale) planet out of millions of potentially inhabitable worlds in this one galaxy - and there are at least 100 billion galaxies out there. So in 700000 years, nobody will really care that your AWA shows a lower percentile ranking than your other two scores. Just taking the humans, how many of those 7 billion would love to have the AWA as one of their major problems? Most people are born into circumstances that make higher education nearly unattainable, and a fair fraction of the lucky 2 billion are too stupid for college. Your life is already pretty good - even without graduate school, simply having a bachelor's degree will probably put you into the top half of income wherever you are, and give you more opportunities than those without. I hope this makes you reconsider the panic; I probably shouldn't be saying this since I'm a part-time standardized test tutor.

Are there any reports of the perfect 340 out there? Have those of you who have been trawling other forums for comparison seen anybody give that score or read about it in your school paper?