Central Unified student celebrates perfect scores on the SAT

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- During junior and senior year, it's crunch time for students to pass their classes, apply to colleges and ace their exams.

Senior Braj Sekhon is a student at Central Online Home School.

He chose to attend class online to help his dad with his computer recycling business, but he prioritized taking the SATs.

"It was very important for me to take it multiple times because I wanted to just get the highest score that I could for colleges," Braj said.

He did well on his PSAT and took the SATs for the first time in March of this year. He did well and scored a 1520.

"Knowing that my PSAT score was high, I expected it to be high, but I hoped that it could be higher," Braj said.

So he took time to study and used practice quizzes and guides online to prepare.

Then in August, he took the test again.

He scored another 1520, but this time had a perfect score on the math portion.

"That was pretty surprising that I got an 800 on that, but it was kind of funny that my reading score went down," Braj said.

A month later, he tried one more time.

He aced the reading and writing and missed a perfect math score by 10 points.

"It was very surprising. I was glad that all the hard work I put into getting the reading score had paid off," Braj said.

Colleges look at the highest scores students have, meaning Braj will be able to apply with a perfect 1600 on his SATs.

According to CollegeBoard.org, last year a total of 2,000,000 seniors took the test.

While the organization doesn't specify how many students received a perfect score, it says of the 2,000,000, only 7% scored between 1400 and 1600.

Braj is hoping the scores help land him at one of the top colleges, such as MIT, Harvard or Stanford.

"So just one of those top schools would be a it would be a dream come true," Braj said.

He wants to double major in mathematics and computer science before going on to get his doctorate degree and becoming a research professor.

He says he hopes he's an example for others.

"I really hope that it inspires other students to push themselves to go beyond," Braj said.

Braj and his family are also hoping the SAT scores will help him land a few scholarships to pay for his education.

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