<p>I have to concur with KingJames on at least one point. For being a non-profit organization, College Board does seem to have some pretty extravagant fees. Perhaps all this attention from the media will lead to a thorough evaluation of their pricing standards and practices.</p>
<p>Bad thing about class actions suits,often the plantiffs only get some sort of token award (a coupon or something) but the lawyers make millions off their percent of the face value of all those tokens.</p>
<p>Chances of the suit going through, I don't know. But it does seem to me very irresponsible of the College Board not to have better quality control systems in place, when they know Pearson's work has been faulty in the past. </p>
<p>We really don't know how many times there have been problems with other test dates that never came to light because the affected test-takers didn't request hand scoring.</p>
<p>Though I can't imagine them suing, it seems to me that the universities would actually have a better chance at proving damages, because of all the extra manhours it took to re-review the applications of the affected students and to make any necessary adjustments, as well as to answer the extra phone calls and emails they got from applicants.</p>
<p>yay! i hoped collegeboard gets ****ed up big time!:)</p>
<p>Just curious though, although this didn't affect a lot of test takers, how is someone supposed to know if there score on the October exam was actually higher or lower? Even if it's only a 50 point difference? I was pretty sure I ended up around 2000-2100 but I only got a 1910. I understand for the people whose score were way below or above but how about those who didn't know?</p>
<p>I say the kid has every right to sue collegeboard. The whole situation is absurd and no doubt cost many students their acceptances and scholarships to their dream schools. I hope all of the affected students jump on board with the student filing the suit. </p>
<p>If collegeboard is going to do nothing but refund the students' money, they should also refund the late fees, the stand-by fees, the fees they charge to send the scores to schools, the hand-scoring fees, and every other absurd fee they have in place. The whole situation is ridiculous and should have never happened.</p>
<p>What is wrong with you ppl that don't believe in this lawsuit? OK - maybe you have an extra $50 or whatever to spend; not everyone does.</p>
<p>kingjames, good one.</p>
<p>i believe the kid has a case. this is ALL about accountability. collegeboard, for screwing things up, needs to be responsible for robbing some kid's dream, for unfairly giving another kid a scholarship. this lawsuit might also force them to be more careful in future, and that will benefited people like ME. YEAH!</p>
<p>Haha there's no way this kid will win this suit.</p>
<p>he may not win the case, but i'm glad someone is challenging collegeboard. i hate them passionately!!!</p>
<p>Why do you hate them? What have they done to you?</p>
<p>i just think that they hold to much power in the lives of so many teenagers. not to mention that the proctor at my december testing ended the science section like 10 minutes early (although that is not really collegeboard's fault)</p>
<p>You should report the proctor if he did that. </p>
<p>I think it's a mistake to blame the College Board for making a test. Blame the College and Universities who insist on using standardized tests to make their admissions decisions. If they didn't use the test and there was no demand for it, the College Board would do something else.</p>
<p>i did report the proctor, but Collegeboard just gave me a free test on another date. but by that time it was too late, i had to send my scores to my schools.</p>
<p>Too bad you didn't take the exam sooner.</p>
<p>i know, i should have taken my SATs last year after ap exams, but i didn't. so i had to take SAT 2s in december after i took reasoning in october.</p>
<p>I hate collegeboard.</p>
<p>but I hate people who sue for everything more.</p>
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Bravo!!! This kid has every right in the world to fill a class-action lawsuit against CB for its improper handling of the October SAT test. Just because you guys haven't been affected by this mishap, that doesn't make the situation for the thousands or 1% of test takers that did have their scores drastically reduced by this incident. In fact, there was a poster on CC whose SAT score was off 400 POINTS from what it was supposed to be(2100 but showed up as 1700). Now go ahead and tell that poor kid and hundreds like him/her that SAT scores aren't everything when now they're forced to attend their state schools because they figured it would be a waste of their efforts/resources to apply to an Ivy after Collegeboard's breakdown in October.</p>
<p>Many of you CC posters seem to automatically believe that every person applying to college these days in the country is applying to an Ivy League school where the admissions process is more holistic and recs/essays/interviews are considered along side with the usual grades and scores. However, 99% of normal American teenagers(those who actually plan to attend college lol), who were probably the demographic most affected by the October affair, probably applied to state schools where grades/scores do mean EVERYTHING and this Collegeboard debacle costed hundreds of these people a spot at at a state/top 200 university and they now will be forced to attend a community college.</p>
<p>Even if this was a relatively minor and innocent error made by Collegeboard in Ocitober, ETS/Pearson/Collegeboard should still face the American justice system and answer to their misdeeds because in the competitve world of college admissions today, there is ABSOLUTELY no room for error and there will be a heavy price to pay for those involved.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02 cents.
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<p>I agree with j00!!!</p>
<p>"there is ABSOLUTELY no room for error and there will be a heavy price to pay for those involved."</p>
<p>This is a ridiculous and unsupportable statement. Eliminating the chance of error completely is not only practically impossible, but would cost absurd amounts of money. The world is neither perfect nor is it fair. Grow up and deal with it.</p>
<p>cornellhotel, i doubt ud be singing the same tune if you were the one with 400 points chopped off your SATS.</p>
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But just because there is a correlation doesn't mean there's a cause. In essence, just because kids with lower SAT scores get accepted at a lower clip doesn't necesarily mean it was the SAT scores that were holding them back.
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<p>I never argued for a necessary connection; once again, the sheer statistics indicate that SAT scores affect the decision. That the preponderance of accepted students at Harvard have above, say, a 1400, is no coincidence.</p>