<p>This is a copy of the email I received yesterday regarding the new grading procedures:</p>
<p>"We want to assure you that accurate student scores and a quality testing experience are the College Board's top priorities. For this reason, we are taking additional steps in the SAT scanning process. As a result, the score reporting date will be extended approximately one week. This will allow us to be certain that the new processes are implemented thoroughly.</p>
<p>We would like you to know that:
Your April SAT scores can be viewed online starting April 24.
Official scores will be mailed to you beginning on May 5.
We will be sending scores to your high school and to any colleges to which you requested scores be sent beginning on April 24.</p>
<p>Our scanning vendor, Pearson Educational Measurement, is implementing enhanced quality controls, which include acclimatizing all answer sheets before scanning to eliminate any possibility of a humidity impact, improving software to identify any answer sheet expansion that might occur due to humidity, and scanning each answer sheet twice, on different days.</p>
<p>As College Board President Gaston Caperton has said, "We want every student to feel confident at all times about the accuracy of his or her scores."</p>
<p>Because of the additional measures we are taking, May and June test scores will also be available approximately one week later than previously announced. We appreciate your understanding as we work to further enhance the quality of our processes.</p>
<p>Well looking at the October 06 Sat it will be on Sat. the 14th (the second saturday?) and would then the scores would be released 3 weeks on a monday... so it would rleased on Monday, November 6? ED is usually Nov. 1?</p>
<p>I guess so. But how would that affect EA/ED if the deadline is November 1? The colleges will still get the scores within a week, which should be fine.</p>
<p>Colleges will probably say "we will accept October scores if they come on time, but we will not make an exception if they are late." Right?</p>
<p>Also, CB hasn't announced anything about next year. They will probably try to improve the efficiency of their new system over the summer. They may or may not be successful, but they will probably try. This is most likely merely an emergency plan.</p>
<p>Don't the individual colleges make the deadlines, not CB? Anway, the current policy of many schools is to accept November scores IF they get to the college on time, without any guarantee. And the November tests are AFTER the postmark deadline of the early apps. So October definitely won't be a problem, but November may be a different story. Regardless, nobody should be planning to take too many tests in the fall of senior year if they're applying early, anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem.</p>
<p>extra week of grading time vs. f'ing up couple thousand sats...i dunno about you guys...but im cool w/ the collegeboard taking the extra week...</p>
<p>lol...yeah i just finished that in ap lang too...what i meant was...extra week vs. a higher chance of the college board screwing up...lol...its so much harder to understand someones true meaning over the internet...</p>
<p>theoneo: What do you mean October won't be a problem? The 2006 October test is scheduled to be on the 14th and they take 3 weeks minimum to grade, which means it will be graded around November 4th. That goes past the Nov. 1st deadline!</p>
<p>Wait! Did Collegeboard say that ALL future tests results are going to be pushed back a week? I thought such time frame applied just to April, May, and June tests...at least that is what is posted online</p>