Collegeboard lost portion of student's AP exam

<p>My daughter received a letter from Collegeboard informing her that they were unable to locate the Free response section of her exam and that she has three options. One option was to accept a projected grade of 5.
Other two options were to retake or cancel. </p>

<p>Here's the other distressing thing about collegeboard. My husband called and the "clerk" said her grade was posted on collegeboard's computer system and she would send it to us. But then why did we receive the notice?</p>

<p>Coincidentally (or not since it is quite late since the exam was taken), the school called us to ask why they still have not received the AP score for her exam.</p>

<p>Lastly, I should mention it is also confusing to me that the lost free-response exam mentioned in the letter referred to AP Calculus AB but my daughter took AP Calculus BC exam.</p>

<p>What are the implications to colleges of receiving a "projected grade" due to lost exam? </p>

<p>Has anyone else experience this before?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your insights.</p>

<p>take the projected. Then call or write to make sure they understand. Also your daughter should be doing this not you, else she'll commit suicide like the scores of techies every year.</p>

<p>Have fun ;)</p>

<p>By they I meant "MIT." If she's a Junior this year she should retake it to settle it completely, if she's already a Senior then don't worry about it. You won't be able to do anything. And call them up about the BC exam.</p>

<p>despite emailing CB about my scores, they keep resending me instructions on sending scores to the schools.....help! somehow, (fearing now that they lost my tests) I can't access any previous AP scores online....maybe I'm doing this wrong. So someone please give instructions to access online.</p>

<p>Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think CB posts AP scores online. Although that would have been more stress relieving than having to wait for snail mail.. :)</p>

<p>I think you are right because I have never heard of AP scores being available online. Although I don't see why they do it. We pay them more for APs than even the SAT reasoning test, and yet we can get scores for the latter online. I have always been suspicious of collegeboard and still am.</p>

<p>I bet they charge more for APs because it requires more human grading. Especially with those free responses where partial credit requires the grader to follow your work and 'foot prints'. I've heard that graders for the SAT Writing essays get only 60 seconds (or maybe it was 120) to read each essay.</p>