<p>60 JFK High students have nothing to show for Advanced Placement after exams vanish</p>
<p>Danielle Smith, Mary Winkler and Ashleigh Wesolowski are among 60 John F. Kennedy High School students who took Advanced Placement exams last May to earn college credit and challenge themselves academically.</p>
<p>But those Cheektowaga students didn't receive the credit and probably never will get a grade.</p>
<p>That's because the College Board, the organization that administers the exams, apparently lost the test papers.</p>
<p>As a result, AP students who graduated from JFK last June went off to college without the academic boost they were aiming for. And the remainder of the 60 students who are now seniors at JFK - including Danielle, Mary and Ashleigh - can't provide AP scores to the schools they will soon be applying to.</p>
<p>All 60 students paid $80 exam fees and are left not knowing how they fared on college-level exams in U.S. history, English, biology, U.S. government and calculus.</p>
<p>"It's kind of hopeless," said Ashleigh. "They can't find the tests, and it doesn't seem like anybody's getting anything done." </p>
<p>I agree, I know that they are also prone to error - but the fact that they are controlling students lives makes it unacceptable for them to be fallible</p>
<p>same thing happened to my friend !!!! ... she called the collegeboard .. and they said they would "investigate" the case .. but then they closed it without noticing her because she didn't call back ( but now since school started .. its hard to find the time to call since their service line closes at 1 something) .. they told her either retake it or will refund. BUT .. my friend paid 90 to tak the exam and now she is not getting the credit after all the studying ?!!?</p>
<p>are they serious? They let students study for one whole year to take the dumb exam and the CB loses them? Those students must be ****ed off. Can't they take this to court or something? College is at stake for them.</p>
<p>digamma, yes they would have 2 wait till may</p>
<p>on the other hand, that's a lot of valuable time of studying that was lost...idk if i would still take it again (unless i knew i would have enough time 2 study for all of those AP exams in may!!)</p>
<p>What happens to those kids who took 5 or 6 AP classes.. That's so much extra time that they had to put into these courses.. Not to mention the extra money they'll have to pay at their university to take the courses they could have scored out of.</p>
<p>Poor kids.. they'll probably have to restudy and retake the exams.</p>
<p>Incompetent collegeboard... a monopoly like them needs to be perfect and something should be done to them when they screw over people like this.</p>
<p>My S would have had a fit--he took 11 AP exams last spring! His school would have raised a huge fuss, since their school administers 100s of exams for their students every year.</p>
<p>So this will seem random, but Im Ashleigh Wesolowski (from the article) and I googled myself and this came up.</p>
<p>I wanted to let everyone know that everyone in my school who lost their exam was refunded, and was given the opportunity to retake the exams for free. Since it had been nearly a year since the exam, most people didn't want to bother retaking the exams. Mary Winkler and I were the only people in my school to retake the AP US History exam, and we had to take it on a day in April, not on the actual test day in May. We had to study for it on our own, and luckily our teacher from last year helped us out. We got our scores back and I managed to get a 3 (which I'm sure could have been a 4 on the original exam, when I was actually taking the class) but the college I'm entering only gives credit for a 4 or 5, so I guess it was a waste.</p>
<p>Anyways, I just wanted to let people know what ended up happening about this, and just say how strange it is that this is what comes up when people google me lol.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update. I understand at my S's HS, they lost the portfolio of a kid who took AP Art & it was all the kid's originals! Sorry you didn't get credit for your AP & had to re-study everything.</p>
<p>I don't go to JFK but a similar thing happened to me. They 'misplaced' my essay packet which is a pain because I completely forgot all of World History after the exam itself. I was offered a retake or a projected grade but I ended up being a daily caller. Magically, my essays turned up and I got my AP grade. =]</p>
<p>This happened to two other girls in my school--but their essays were never found and they had to settle for projected grades.</p>