Twin 16-year-old brothers both get perfect SAT scores

[matcom]

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It seems like the kind of SAT question custom-made for Dillon and Jesse Smith of Long Beach: If one out of every 1,511 students taking the SAT will get a perfect score, what are the odds that twin brothers will both ace the test?

Answer: No one knows for sure. Nevertheless, that's what the Smith twins have done.

Both Dillon and Jesse Smith, 16-year-old fraternal twins, achieved the elusive top score of 1600, a number most high school seniors dream about seeing on their SAT score report.

"I was very, very happy," said Dillon, describing the moment he realized that both he and his brother received the top score on the aptitude test. "I've been hoping for it since we started."

It was a rare thing to hope for. Of the 1.4 million high school seniors who took the test in 2004, only 939 scored a 1600, according to the College Board, which administers the test. With those numbers, the odds of any two people getting that score would be almost 1 in 2.3 million -- and that doesn't even take into account whether those two people are related, never mind twins.

"It's a very low probability that any one person would get it ," said Nancy Mendell, professor of applied math and statistics at Stony Brook University. "And it's even lower that both would."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-litwin1027,0,3610427.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix

[soupkitchen]

1. Which one copied off the other? Or took the test twice?

[Fridays Child]

2. Second time for both but they were near perfect, the first time around.

As for cheating, how do you even know if they're Republicans?

[olddem43]

3. It is really amazing that two people who are in the same family,

and were educated the same way would have similar intellectual abilities. I bet they even have similar likes and dislikes.