<p>The College Board (well, someone who works there) sent another student's AP Grade Reports to all of DD's schools instead of her own report! DD received the receipt list today, and the report has her social security number and one of the AP numbers. The Other Student (henceforward, OS) has a similar first name although DD's is an unusual version of that name. The middle initial is the same. The last name is very different, and the high school is in a completely different state. One of the courses is the same (same score, different year) but the other course is different with a much lower score. I will call the College Board on Monday along with sending copies of the receipts and her original letter with all of her information to them. Hopefully they will correct this quickly.</p>
<p>I do not think the OS's scores will be filed with DD's application because the names, birth dates, addresses and schools are different. </p>
<p>The lesson? Pay attention to everything that comes to your house even if you think you know what it is.</p>
<p>The bad news is that the AP portion of the College Board seems to be less efficient and less computerized than the portion that runs the SATs. </p>
<p>The good news is that the AP people really do fix mistakes.</p>
<p>At one point, the AP people thought my daughter was two different students. There was one AP score report with some of her scores on it, in her correct name. There was also another AP score report with other scores on it, with an inexplicable blank space in the middle of her first name. One call to the AP people got the two reports merged into one, with her name spelled properly and all the scores listed correctly.</p>
<p>Of course, when she actually got to college and it was time for the college to decide how many credits she had earned on the basis of her AP scores, the college screwed that up and gave her the wrong number of credits, and she had to send them documentation of her scores to get the situation straightened out. But that's another story.</p>
<p>Why anyone would spend the money to send AP reports at this juncture of the application process is beyond me. I can't think of a single college that D applied to years ago that asked for the reports sent to the college unless D was to matriculate there.</p>
<p>I also agree about checking everything on the reports. D's report from senior year came to us with only her 5 senior AP scores ... she had previously taken 3 other tests over 2 years & the second year's report had first 2 year's tests. I called & had the reports merged. There was really no reason for this to have happened, but it did. If I hadn't noticed, her college would not have received any of the previous scores (since she had decided on a school by that time, she had the report sent there when she took the tests).</p>
<p>We really feel one of D's AP scores senior year was incorrect. It was a 1, and it just really did not make sense. However, since she did not need the score to get out of the class, we didn't ask for a rescore. I figured we'd already given CB more than enough of our money!!! If she had needed the score, though, we definitely WOULD have requested a rescore. Mistakes happen.</p>
<p>I noticed on my D last report that they had all of her scores but not all of her certificates, I may be mistaken but I do feel that this information can be referred to for the purpose of scholarships given to the students once attending the college.</p>
<p>I called the College Board and had a corrected and a up to date report sent to her adviser. I understand that if not needed why, well I feel that they earned it, whether the college gives them credit for it or not. My D thought that I was crazy for pursuing it but I felt that she worked hard for the certifications, I am not asking them to give her something that she did not earn, maybe I am to much of a what is right is right and what is not should be fixed.</p>
<p>By the way I was not charged, it was their error not mine.</p>