Sounds a lot like what happens when someone gets on the TSA no-fly list with little to no explanation or recourse.
Glad you found a way around it.
Wow. I’m sure glad I never took the SAT, I’ve had no problems whatsoever with ACT, they’ve always been timely.
I’m glad his ACT score worked for his needs. The whole thing is ridiculous and confirms my dislike if the College Board. .
You can now add the Saturday fiasco to your distrust. Not because there was a problem - that’s human. But because of the asinine response by CB maintaining the scores will be valid nevertheless (Even if two full sections plus the experimental one will not be part of the test results, even with the grid in having an increased weight.)
Maybe this is what people are referring to when they talk about “the power of statistics”.
Amazing. I would have given up and gone the ACT route long before you did. Appreciate you sharing the blow by blow because it will help a lot of people.
The one takeaway I have from this is after seeing what you went through I would be very leery of sending my child in to take the test with no prep the first time. A lot of CC posters have done so to get a baseline for what to prep and a lot have lucked out with a kid who scored well out of the gate with no prep, but that seems risky to me given what happened here. If I send my kid in with no prep, he doesn’t do his best but then preps and brings the score up, scores get delayed, reviewed and possibly invalidated. I’ll pass.
I think what they did in OP’s case is awful.
I just sent my rising Junior in with no prep for both the last weeks CB messed printing error SAT and today’s ACT. I didn’t know that CB looked at the PSAT…
DS said he liked the ACT better so I think he will take that one again if necessary.
Prior to all of this happening I did not believe the PSAT would ever matter as it is a practice test. So they used PSATscore for the other student to justify the actual score and also used the variable section score to invalidate my sons. ACT all the way now. I have already advised so many kids not to take the psat and to not buy CB prep materials. Think about it. as myos stated above look at the fiasco from last test and they will validate as their mistake did not cause issues. they wield all the power to invalidate scores for any reason, any reason folks. People need to read the fine print when signing up for their test. Also, they are never in any hurry to remedy a questioned score, ever.