<p>everything I hate about America. Get your greedy, capitalistic paws off of me, you money-loving bureaucratic whores.</p>
<p>ok.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>I find collegeboard to be pretty useful. umad?</p>
<p>I can see why people don’t like them. </p>
<p>What’s YOUR problem with them though?</p>
<p>How they’ve somehow, to quite an impressive extent, managed to financially insert themselves into every level of the college application process. And they’ve pretty much monopolized the market for college applications; the only real alternative is the ACT which does not offer certain services–certain services that most post-secondary institutions require (SAT Subject Tests, Administering AP tests/Sending off AP scores, CSS Profiles [the associated fee with filling out a financial aid document strikes me as absurdly hilarious). It certainly seems to exploit its obvious monopoly with numerous–and costly–fees.</p>
<p>It operates clandestinely. They alone directly control the ins and outs of the AP curriculum (a curriculum championed as the best–and most pervasive in America–college preparatory curriculum offered by high schools–and essential to admittance at a quality university. After paying $87 for a test, you receive only a test grade and a name. They do not release how individual AP scores are awarded. Of course access to this information is restricted, unless you’re willing to pay a fee. Even college officials are wary of how much they rely on an a singular, fairly covert/incompetent organization to receive students’ academic credentials: the dean of admissions at Pomona College (top 10 LAC) said in 2006 “Everybody appears to be telling half-truths, and that erodes confidence in the College Board…It looks like they hired the people who used to do the books for Enron.”</p>
<p>My dislike of them stems from the exploitative nature of their monopoly.</p>
<p>Do something to remedy it, then–whining about ‘the powers that be’ on CC gets you nowhere.</p>
<p>^I agree with arachnophobia. Instead of whining about it, do something.</p>
<p>Lol at the “do something”</p>
<p>I pretty much agree, but there’s nothing we can do. Thank american culture, lol.</p>
<p>dude i love collegebored wat you talkin bout wilis</p>
<p>Call the Trust Busters. They do have monopolies on certain things.</p>
<p>However, I am far from a legal expert, so I do not know what the anti-trust laws are actually like.</p>
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I had late financial aid because I was unable to pay the fees for all of my colleges by the deadlines.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a trust because it’s technically a nonprofit. Though it does, in fact, make money, it’s classified as a nonprofit organization.</p>
<p>But I know very little about these things.</p>