<p>UNREAL!!!</p>
<p>It real and I was one of those people!</p>
<p>My Scores for the october test were REALLY REALLY OFF!</p>
<p>My Critical reading was off by 90 points, my math was off by 80, that's 170 points error! </p>
<p>I knew something was off when I got my scores and it was in the mid 600's when i'm used to being in the mid 700's, so I requested a score report. When I saw the score report, I was shocked to see that two sections were almost competely omitted.</p>
<p>It was a HUGE problem to get the hand scoring because of ETS sticking by such a complicated beuracracy! They didn't want to do anything at all and kept asking for a fee of $50. I played by their rules. At around Thanksgiving, I officially requested the handscoring and waited weeks and weeks and weeks. It said on the site that it would take about 5 weeks, so after 5 weeks, i called them because I still had no response. They had the nerve to tell me that they didn't count weekends and holidays as business days! So I had to wait until FEBRUARY 2 for the change on my SAT score page on the internet to appear (Not even a mail or an email!)</p>
<p>They didn't send a formal apology either, I had to badger them about my SAT scores, I had to call all my colleges one by one in order to inform them of the situation. It wasn't until MARCH 2 that they sent the score change to my colleges. My family and I have gone through much more hassle than we deserved, and because of their mistake, I was too insecure to do early decision or even apply to the top schools I would have had a chance to attend had I known my CORRECT SCORE. I have no idea what this cost me, but it could have meant the difference between Ivy and just private. It's such a lucky year for my family!</p>
<p>So are you saying there were 2 sections of the test where you answered all (or most) of the questions, but your answers were not recorded at all, ie the questions were scored as if you had not answered at all?</p>
<p>who's affected? only the students from texas?</p>
<p>I'm checking to make sure I was properly credited with my 900/860/810.</p>
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<p>Hard to know, because there are conflicting reports, and I would suggest perhaps CB is not interested in full disclosure. From one article, </p>
<p>"Bruce Poch, vice president and dean of admission at Pomona College in California, where about a half-dozen applicants were affected, said he was told by a College Board official the problem primarily affected a testing site on the East Coast. But Topiel said the students who did not receive credit for some answers were spread around the country."</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Ms. Coletti said the problem grew out of the scanning of answer sheets in Texas so that the sheets could be graded by computer. (ahhh! I just realized that Texas could be a central scoring site, not necessarily a testing center) </p>
<p>They are also saying that for a few students the mistake produced a higher reported score than their actual score. If the error created blank sections, I guess if a student actually chose mostly wrong answers he would have a higher reported score if they were graded as omissions rather than wrong.</p>
<p>Good grief. I took the exam in October in Texas. Does anyone know if exams taken in Texas are scanned in Texas or sent somewhere else for scoring?</p>
<p>how do u know if ur scores were messed up? cuz my oct. scores were low too.</p>
<p>i have been hearing about this all morning but am not quite sure what the problem was. Is it that some filled in answers were not registered or that correct answers were registered as incorrect - or both?</p>
<p>I answered them all but the answers of the 2 sections were scored as omitted!</p>
<p>you people at collegeboard are idiots for waiting this long to send those letters to the colleges and notifying the students.</p>
<p>The NYTimes article said only 8 tenths of one percent of October test takers were affected. But at the NY Institute of Technology, 50 of 2,000 applicants were affected (note: applicants, not applicants who took the Oct. SAT) so that's more like 2.5%. CB says they will email all students whose scores should really be higher by the end of Thursday and the media reports imply that schools were notified via letter on Tuesday which applicants may have had their scores raised.</p>
<p>So do you think schools will change ED decisions or scholarship awards or admission to selective programs once they get the new figures?</p>
<p>I think it is doubtful because SAT scores are only part of the complete package. I doubt that they will reverse their decision by just looking at the new scores. I think by that time, they already have a first impression of you, which is why colleges tell you to send in the test scores before January 2006.</p>
<p>This comes from an AP story:</p>
<p>The College Board told colleges about the error Tuesday and said affected students would get word by Thursday.</p>
<p>At the very least, the error was a major headache in admissions offices, who thought they were through the busiest part of the year. At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, admissions director Kevin Kelly had finished printing and started mailing more than 12,000 decision letters when he opened his own mail to find a 13-page roster of students whose scores had been reported incorrectly.</p>
<p>On March 7, to get this packet of information is a little startling, Kelly said. Most of my immediate reaction is not printable.</p>
<p>The affected students appear to be clustered in the Northeast. At the University of Vermont, 107 applicants scores were affected, though most by just a few points, dean of admissions Don Honeman said. By Wednesday afternoon, Honeman said his staff had already reconsidered them all. One student who had been denied was admitted, and three others were bumped to a higher scholarship level.</p>
<p>Colleges in other regions seemed less affected. The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill had 71 affected applications, the University of California, Berkeley had 32 and the University of Georgia four. Earlham College in Indiana had five, but all had already been admitted.</p>
<p>The College Board said differences were less than 100 points, out of a total possible score of 2,400, for the vast majority of affected students.</p>
<p>As the party who screwed up you have a responsibility to fess up to the problem and provide a clear explanation, Dennis Trotter, dean of admission at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania, wrote in a letter to a College Board official.</p>
<p>College Board spokeswoman Jennifer Topiel said the organizations notified admissions officials as soon as we possibly could. Affected students will get refunds, and a handful of incorrect scores that actually should have been lower will not be changed.</p>
<p>But several people, including Trotter and Brad MacGowan, guidance counselor at Newton North High School in suburban Boston, questioned the decision to let inaccurately high scores stand, wondering if those students would now unfairly displace others.</p>
<p>Are these scores important, or arent they? MacGowan said.</p>
<p>My daughter just got an email from college board and was told she was one of the kids whose scores were affected. Her critical reasoning went up by 90 points.
They refunded the fee and said they are notifying all the schools she applied to. We will double check to make sure the schools are notified. She was rejected by her ED school, how will we ever know if the accurate score would have made the difference? Infuriating!
We live in NJ, by the way.</p>
<p>sarha - NJ is a state where the state schools award merit scholarships based on a matrix of class rank vs SAT scores. An upward bump of 90 points could easily move your daughter into a higher scholarship category for schools like Rutgers or TCNJ.</p>
<p>sarha,</p>
<p>Good and hope your daughter will be able to get into her ED school base on the new score. Please let us know when you get any good news! I hope my son have ED. His May 2005 first sat was good but we were so discouraged by the oct test therefore we didn't. </p>
<p>( By the way this is dell's mom not dell101, I should have set my own I.D.)</p>
<p>My daughter took the test in October. There was a HUGE snafu with her score reporting. It was never available online. We filed a formal complaint...and they launched an investigation. No one could tell us where her scores (or tests) were. The date of notification came and went and others received the scores in the mail. Hers came about a week later. Very odd. It would be WONDERFUL if she got 100 or even 20 additional points. She missed a great award at one college by TWENTY points. We live in the northeast. I'm not going to hold my breath, however. I think the college board is comprised of a bunch of IDIOTS.</p>
<p>Absolutely awful! I wonder how often they have screwed up in the past without it being caught???? And how about psat scores? Or Sat IIs? I always think that the computer scoring is reliable - but guess that I am wrong, wrong, wrong!</p>
<p>my commiserations to all of you! That's awful- I can't believe they took so long to sort things out. The College Board has an unfair balance of power.</p>
<p>Good luck getting your scores fixed.</p>