<p>I hope this makes the colleges more honest about their use of SAT scores. Many say that scores are not the most important thing but it's obvious that the difference between an 1800 and a 2200 is significant.</p>
<p>To thecalccobra:
I think the reason that kids in the 1300-1800 range were affected is that those are more common scores than 2300.
All ranges of schools use cut-offs for scores, so kids don't have to be applying to the most selective schools to be affected by this.</p>
<p>This is why everyone should take the ACT!</p>
<p>i agree. i took the sats once and after dying of hunger trying to get through the thing, i decided to give the act a try. best thing i ever did. did pretty good on it and retook that to prove i could do better which i did. </p>
<p>our class was the guinea pigs for this new test and it sucked. as for low scores, look at it like this. going from a 1300 to a 1400 is not big deal but a 1700 to 1800 might be if you are trying for say a middle level school instead of the easiest like auburn to u of tenn.</p>
<p>This makes you wonder how many times incorrect scores have happened before and not ever been caught. It must be in the thousands.</p>
<p>Check out this article on the recent SAT news and how the College Board's mishap should make us rethink standardized testing as a whole.</p>
<p>My D is taking the SAT exam for the first time April Fools day. I sure as hell hope it doesn't rain that day and warp the answer sheets. DANA's DAD</p>
<p>Like someone said I'm sure there will be hordes of lawsuits from very irate people, and I'll sympathize with all of them. However, I have a feeling it will be difficult for these lawsuits to win, for two reasons. First of all, given the esoteric and ultra-intricate deliberations that go into college decisions, it will be next to impossible to prove a direct correlation between slightly diminished standardized test scores and rejection from colleges. It would maybe work if you could actually convince admissions officers to get on the stand and talk about the thought process that goes into accepting applicants and then discuss the cases of the applicants in question, but given that admissions offices won't even do that informally now, what makes you think they are going to want to risk their well-honed p.r. images for the sake of a few random lawsuits against College Board? Even if this problem was somehow managed, I doubt that a court would accept the argument that Applicant X's life is ruined because he got a lowered score on his SAT and therefore didn't get into School Y to the extent of quantifying reparations monetarily.</p>
<p>Now what this does go to show is that we desperately need to rid ourselves of the college admissions dinosaur that is standardized testing. Hopefully this controversy will signal the beginning of its death knell.</p>
<p>I took the December test. but what if I feel like the scores were wrong... how do I get them to check it again?</p>
<p>you can request a rescoring i think. but it costs way too much.</p>
<p>see that's not fair...
we shouldn't pay for something that they did wrong, which they're responsible for.</p>
<p>or they should just check everyone's again, bc who's to know that the rest are right? i don't trust them anymore.</p>
<p>yes no more sat
may be......=(</p>
<p>Shouldn't there be some really basic rights, when you pay for the test, I mean you're paying to get a test, but as you pay for clothes in a store, you have the right to return it if it is defective at no cost, and you have the right to have the clothes checked for at no cost either. I think there should be something similar for the SAT I, or at least refund the $50 suspicious people paid a few months ago. I mean, is "sorry" really enough? Noo o o o o</p>
<p>Also, I agree that more people should move to the ACT, I mean, you can take that test as many times as you like and report your best score, no stupid fees like collegeboard to send in your score report to each college, etc. I would take the ACT but I'm already nearing the end of my junior year, and I've been prompted to take the SAT since 7th grade, and ACT was hardly mentioned, which is why I'm much more familiar with the SAT now. I think I wouldn't know how to work as well on the ACT because I wouldn't even be able to use the calculator I use at school and on the SAT and I wouldn't be as familiar with the test. </p>
<p>Its just too bad that everyone is saying to do lawsuits and sue and give em hell basically, but no one is taking any action.</p>
<p>One more thing, although I like the idea of college admissons being only based on essays/school grades/extracirruculars/recommendations, I don't think it will be as equal when the SAT scores are included. You're right that we should do away with standardized testing, but that's exactly what it does, 'standardizes'. I'll be honest here, my high school is not even nearly as hard as other students' high schools, so my rank may be completely different if I were in their school. Unless we standardize schools, the standardized tests are basically needed, because even recommendations, rank/gpa can be biased. SAT scores, more or less, are not. I know people like to argue that it is, but anyone can go their public library or school and check out a prep book. And even though people think those really expensive SAT courses elite people have access to provides them their good scores, it's actually really the courses, just the motivation the tutors give the students.</p>
<p>What makes you think the ACT is somehow immune to the same problems that the SAT has experienced?</p>
<p>I studied about 15 times more on the SAT than the ACT (which I didn't really study for), and I always scored higher on the ACT. >_></p>
<p>That's because it's an easier test.</p>
<p>Did this affect only a specific group?</p>
<p>I took the SAT in Oct(SAT2) and Nov(SATI), I live in Silver spring MD (DC suburbs), is it possible that I was affected? are these HUGE score differences?</p>
<p>I took the Oct. SAT and my parents and I were shocked at my scores - my writing was over 100pts lower than my previous two testings which had been consistent before. Considering writing is my best subject, this killed my SAT - whenever I do better on math than writing, one knows something is wrong. </p>
<p>Of course, I haven't been notified or anything about my SAT score, but I really think I've been affected by it. Why not demand a check in scores? I got into my universities, regardless of the SAT scores...</p>
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<p>It's something around $30. However, CB refunds it if they actually get a different score hand-scoring.</p>