@adonkeyfly @noblecollegekid I think you sound like reasonable students and there is no need for you to apologize. The fact that you spent money applying has nothing to do with whether CB failed to deliver what you paid for. Nor is it true that colleges just wait. Look at Stanford, Michigan and Yale websites. They are not waiting for scores to arrive. I am sure CB’s business is more and expensive than we all know, but that does not mean that it is not exploitive too.
Yale, as an example of some flexibility: http://admissions.yale.edu/news-and-notes
We pay for services all the time, people pay for others to mow their grass, babysit their kids, do maintenance on their car, prepare their taxes, we use the mail to send things. Everything becomes more expensive all the time because the cost of living keeps going up. And yes, when we pay for a service we expect it to be done correctly and on time.
But as we know that doesn’t always happen. Mistakes happen. So we should expect to be reimbursed if that happens.
I think the CB did that. After the June SAT problem, did they let the students retake in Oct for free? Wasn’t that one of the reasons why so many took that Oct SAT and score reports were backed up? I saw people post that their rush service took more than 2 days and they got their money back.
It’s ok to complain about the mistakes. But to complain how much it costs when you control how many applications you send and how many tests you take is silly.
Applying to colleges costs money for test prep, test taking fees, score reporting fees, application fees, CSS profile fees.
Some students get help with these fees because of being lower income, others have parents who pay for it all, the ones who are inbetween may need to apply wisely, limiting number of tests and apps to be able to afford it.
Getting accepted is only step 1, paying for attending there is another.
It is not right to call other posters names because they point out flaws in your logic, inaccuracies in your argument or simply disagree with you.
This is a corner of the internet where a ranting or venting post is usually met with people parsing your logic and debating the actual merit of your complaint. So you might want to get used to that. 
I would not make that claim based upon the delays in getting scores from the September test.
I actually just got an email from Colorado College telling me about serious delays in the October ACT scores because of the new writing system they implemented, coupled with all the threads on CC now with kids getting 35 on the English section and low 20’s in the new essay portion, which seems to suggest that no, ACT does not always have their act together.
Can we compromise on neither of them having their act together?
I was talking about score reports. Tests can be made up but Scores have deadlines.
As was I. [url=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1822009-has-anyone-been-following-the-act-score-fiasco.html]One[/url] of the many threads on the subject.
Huh, I did not catch that. I guess every testing company sucks.
Well, we agree on something. 
My scores sent today! I wasted my money on the rushed score though since they all sent at the same time. 8-| Oh well, you can’t win them all.
If they didn’t send the rushed score within 2 days, give them a call to get a refund
will do
The Parchment service that our high school uses for transcripts sends them for free. And it’s a multi-step process. You place the request, it pings your school’s counseling department, someone there electronically approves sending it, and Parchment releases it to the college.
For no charge. Even for multiple sends, as we had to do when one of the colleges my D applied to maintained that they did not have it, six weeks after we sent it (and got the notification that it had been received).
For testing agencies to charge $11-12 to send a report to each school requesting your scores - times multiple sittings, when needed for superscoring - is robbery. I can maybe see $12 for the first one and something nominal like $2-3 after that. They already scored the darned thing, there’s no additional effort investment.
They know we do not have alternatives, so it continues.
@ohiovalley16 exactly.
@nobelcollegekid Hey, can you check your score status again to see if those scores that sent on the 4th are still sent? (Also mods, sorry about posting about this topic so much today, I don’t know if it is against the rules)
My scores that were marked as sent on the 4th suddenly had their sent date changed to the 16th…
Please tell me this was a mistake…
@scoottehbesht Nope, not a mistake. Welcome to the “Collegeboard has actually, seriously, screwed us over” Club. Maybe we were over dramatic on the 2nd, but now there is no excuse.
Fool me once with the June SAT, shame on me…
Fool me twice with the initial score report delay, shame on me…
Fool me thrice…
Totally unacceptable from Collegeboard. Strangely enough they haven’t even publically announced this delay. I wonder if it’s cause they did it without any real notice.