SAT results from 1977 look like ones from 1980:

[originalpckelly]

Above is an SAT report from 1977, it appears to be authentic.



Above is an SAT from 1982, the alleged report of Sarah Palin (nee Sarah Heath.)

Looks very possible, a very good fake if it is one.

[tekisui]

1. 38th percentile. That sounds about right.

Only smarter than 38%, those who give her a favorable rating. Must be authentic.

[ecstatic]

2. let the rethugs do all the footwork of debunking! nt

[JonQ]

13. Terrible logic

So is it incumbent on democrats to disprove every claim made about Obama?

I'd say that in every situation whoever puts forth the idea must first prove it to some degree before the other side should necessarily have to try to disprove it.

[prayin4rain]

3. what a dimwit n/t

[tanyev]

4. I took my SAT in 1980, and I'm pretty sure my report looked like Sarah's.

I'd have to do some real digging to find it, though.

[originalpckelly]

5. I'd hate to have you look for it...

only for this to be bs. But if you think you can find it, that could be the ticket. That's not too far away in time, so chances are the form is the same.

[tanyev]

16. I just did some digging in the most likely spots and had no luck.

[JonQ]

12. Presumably

if someone was going to make a photoshopped version they wouldn't start from scratch. They'd take an actual SAT report from the appropriate time period and edit some of the relevant details.

[LisaM]

6. Did she really have a 2.2 GPA?

with a D in foreign languages?

Whose report is that top one?

[originalpckelly]

7. Some random guy who put it up as memorabilia on a high school reunion site.

[jflood1016]

9. Actually it was a 2.16 n/t

[iamthebandfanman]

14. those are 'self reported' too n/t

[leftofthedial]

8. half of all Americans are below average.

the trick is not allowing them ALL to become repukes.

[LisaM]

10. Or to hold high office

Sorry to expect something more from the people running the country.

It says her GPA is 2.2, which is quite low. Where do you get 2.16?

[leftofthedial]

15. I didn't say anything about her GPA.

:shrug:

[LisaM]

17. Not you, someone else up thread. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

11. I don't buy it. The lettering is too exact and uniform.

The lettering in actual printouts (like in the top one) is much more variable in thickness and shading. I'd bet someone copied a blank and printed a fake with a modern inkjet.

[trotsky]

18. I took mine in 1989 and they looked EXACTLY like that.

Not surprising one bit.

[dysfunctional press]

19. "a very good fake if it is one."

how hard would it be to make a scan of an actual 1982 SAT score sheet, and replace the names and scores...?

not very hard.

[PensiveGadfly]

20. Must be a fake

I found the source document and it is bogus, but that does not mean that this was not pasted onto the bogus document and is real. But how would this get out? School wouldn't release it; SAT people wouldn't release it. Looks too much to me like the Bush documents that sank Dan Rather. I'm sure the score is fairly close to her real score, but I say we let this drop.