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Smartypants Twins Get Matching Perfect SAT Scores
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Most everything that 17-year-old twins Marie and Tina Vachovsky do seems to come in twos: both of them paint, play the piano, surf, play tennis, have a 4.5 GPA, applied to Stanford and the UCs and got an impressive 2200 the first time they took the SAT.
But both of the teens decided to retake the SAT to see if they could, you know, completely obliterate the test. It worked out well: both of them got perfect 2400 scores.
That's a rare feat for a single person, much less a pair of twins, explains the San Diego Union-Tribune. About .025% of high school seniors get a perfect score. 360 seniors out of 1,664,479 got perfect scores last year.
What's the secret to their success? "We actually studied this time," Tina said.
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