<p>A friend of mine took the November SATs. He had his scores held back by CollegeBoard, and recently, he was informed that he was suspected of "cheating on the SATs because his scores went up so much."</p>
<p>Now, personally I find this hilarious in that the last time he took the SATs was when he was in 8th grade, and they were the old SATs. He didn't do too bad either.</p>
<p>I was just curious -- how much is too much an increase?</p>
<p>Your friend needs to contact College Board immediately and inquire as to precisely why they're withholding his scores.</p>
<p>He should not hang up the phone until the issue is resolved.</p>
<p>I'm sorry I wasn't clear -- apparantly he was one of those who had his scores delayed.</p>
<p>Do they have to have a reason for that? Or is not just a simple "too bad. bad luck." enough of a reason for them.</p>
<p>I remember my college counselor telling me one year this girl got a 1300 as a junior. Over the summer, she took a class, went through the books, did a ton of practice tests, memorized a million vocab words, slept the SAT and breathed the SAT. She took it again and her scores were also delayed. Apparently her score went up 600 points (it may have been higher - don't remember). I have no idea what CB might do to inspect cheating and delay scores... but I guess they have to make sure...?</p>
<p>My first thoughts were "Oh my gosh! It almost looks like there's another section!"</p>
<p>He scored somewhere between a 1100 and a 1200 as an 8th grader.</p>
<p>I didn't realize the new an old SATs were comparable, even, until today.</p>
<p>they delay a lot of scores for different reasons. i got mine delayed for gridding something that contradicted with something on my online registration, or some crap like that. where does it say he was suspected of cheating? a 1100-1200 would amount to an 1650-1800. there are plenty of people with 1800's and go up to 2300+s by their senior year.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure they have a cut off for how much the score raises (I <em>think</em> it's 350), and then they automatically delay your scores and check it out. I don't know anyone it's happened to but I've seen it on here several times. Usually (unless they really did cheat I'm assuming) it turns out fine. When they recheck his scores they will see he took it in 8th grade. It'll probably be fine. It's not so much "suspected" as they automatically flag any large raise to be investigated (probably not that thoroughly either...I mean really what they can do unless you obviously cheated and got reported or something?).</p>
<p>what happens if colleges need the score by 31st and collegeboard delays it?</p>