<p>S2 took AP English Lit and AP English Language tests in the spring. He took one of them (maybe both of them....I can't remember for sure) on the make-up day. Since he was home schooled, he took his test with the local public high school students (but, obviously, he is not a student at that school). His scores didn't come and didn't come and finally I contacted College Board (or actually, ETS). First they said they couldn't find my son's file and asked for additional info. I gave it to them and then they said they found it and would mail it. </p>
<p>I kept checking his college website to see if they had posted his scores with his transfer credits but the scores didn't show up, so I contacted them again. They said that S2 did not designate any universities when he took the test, so we would have to pay to have the scores sent. Well, when S2 came home from the test, I specifically asked him if he had designated his college and he told me he had. I am sure that he did....but of course I can't prove it. Now I am concerned that maybe it's not S2's test scores that they are looking at. He has a common last name.</p>
<p>I don't know what I can do. Can I request something to verify that this is indeed S2's test? Would they send me a copy of the student information form that S2 filled out that supposedly left off the university? I paid a fortune for those two tests and this makes me so angry. I had to pay an additional testing fee to the public school for him to test there in addition to the regular testing fees (and yes, homeschoolers pay school taxes like everyone else, but don't get me started on that).</p>
<p>If he tested on a normal reporting date, you can request a copy of his free response booklet (for a fee, of course). But, you must request it by Sept 15. </p>
<p>It was less than a fortune. It was also less than list price for the same number of credits at most colleges that award credit for AP test scores. Even if you have to pay for a score report to be sent to the college, you'll still come out ahead economically. And dealing with this bureaucracy now is good practice for a homeschooling parent (said tokenadult, another homeschooling parent) getting ready for college applications. </p>
<p>I feel for you. But feel good about getting S2 into the test, and look forward to the score report getting to the right place, and relax.</p>
<p>What is the concern here? If the concern is paying for the score report to be sent, then sure, it would be a pity to have to pay again, but after all, that's a small amount of money. Moreover, the forms are complicated, and your son might not have actually designated any colleges on them, even though he believes he did.</p>
<p>If you believe that the scores reported as your son's are actually incorrect, that's a different matter. Do you have any of the paperwork your son got when he signed up for the tests?</p>
<p>one other thing, when the score is sent to a college it will be noted on the score report sent to your home. If there is no college listed on YOUR form, you might as well just pay the extra few bucks and get it done. If he's a rising college Frosh, another $10 is miniscule and its not worth the fuss, IMO.</p>
<p>My son had some missing AP test scores last year. He has what I thought was a less than usual name. We called the 800 number and found out he ended up with two Collegeboard accounts, which they merged during the call. The service rep also mentioned to me that we should be careful because there was another kid with the same name and birthday graduating the same year. So, call the number and ask them for help.</p>
<p>"...I paid a fortune for those two tests and this makes me so angry. I had to pay an additional testing fee to the public school for him to test there in addition to the regular testing fees (and yes, homeschoolers pay school taxes like everyone else, but don't get me started on that)...."</p>
<p>Guess what ? My kids go to the local public HS and we pay taxes too - and our school still charges an additional proctor fee on a per test basis. So we paid the College Board fee of $ 86 + $ 20 per test.</p>
<p>So I paid a total of $ 742 for 7 tests which resulted in 24 credits (5s on all exams)....Not a bad deal..IMO</p>
<p>OP, I think it's terrible that your public school would charge a fee to a homeschooler just to sit for the test. That's ridiculous.</p>
<p>Bessie, we also had missing scores D's senior year. When I called, the rep was really surprised, because she couldn't see any difference at all between the old score info & the newest year's info. She went ahead & merged them and sent the updated info to her college. After that, though, I asked them to double-check her tests because she had received one grade that was uncharacteristically low. The letter I received in response was pretty snotty (basically, WE don't MAKE mistakes). It didn't matter, since she had college credit for the AP class, anyway (agreement between her school & a college in the area). It just made me mad. We pay a lot, and I honestly suspect that there are more mistakes than there should be.</p>
<p>Homeschooling laws vary widely from state to state but homeschoolers could be thought of as private schools with some oversight by school districts without state money for the student.</p>
<p>I think that our districts are particularly stressed this year due to heating and transportation fuel costs. I've been to the administration office a few times this fall and they looked pretty busy.</p>
<p>My son, some years ago, took the PSAT test at the local high school. (They let homeschoolers sit for all proctored tests like regularly enrolled students here, same costs, etc.) He specifically asked the proctor for the homeschool code when he was filling out the information section, and she gave it to him, no problem. Then we never got his scores. The kids at the high school got theirs, but his never came. I called them up and after a week or so they tracked them down, and they said he hadn't entered the homeschool code, but instead the high school's code. I didn't argue with them since it wasn't me filling in the info on test day, but when I talked to a counselor at the high school he checked and said they never received a score for him either. I don't know what went wrong really, and it didn't really matter because it was just the PSAT (and as a 10th grader at that), but after that I just had him enter the school's code. All his subsequent SAT/AP scores went to the school, but here they're amenable to supporting homeschoolers in such things --because as you say, we all pay taxes to support the schools-- but we found it much less likely for there to be weird glitches if we followed the crowd in that particular respect.</p>
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<p>You are probably right...but it's the principle of the thing, ya' know? They just have all of us completely over a barrel. We have to have those scores, and if they say stuff is missing, then we have to take their word for it or pay to receive a copy.</p>
<p>S is the type who loves to fight for "righteous causes", so I think I'll just turn this over to him. If he wants to argue with them, fine. I'll tell him to let me know when he's done arguing, so that I can send the 10 bucks and be done with it.</p>