I got kicked out of the exam center for SAT 2 since more people showed up

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<p>Hi:</p>

<p>I am sophomore now. I just finished AP and prepared so hard for the SAT Chemistry exam and went to take the exam. I registered for the exam 3 months ago. I went to the Testing center at 7:45 am and stood there for 15 mts, then they realized that they had only 45 SAT 2 booklets and 60 people showed up. They took first 25 and the administrator decided to take only seniors and they took 20 more seniors and sidelined the rest of the kids. We were all ****ed and my parents and other parents spoke with the administrator and questioned his rationale. All he said was 'SORRY' and he can not do anything and he told us to take the exam in Fall. It is plain stupid. We studied our butts off and we got ripped off. Can this happen in America? The administrator realized that the Test center was overbooked and asked for more bookelts and they did not arrive on Thursday and he went to a graduation party on Friday. He never bothered to get hold of CB and the parents to make us aware of the situation.</p>

<p>What can we do here? My parents called College Board and they told us I should have taken the exam regardless and they do understand what is going on. All the parents were so ****ed. He can arrange for a special Test on June 21. I will be out of country and I have to repeat the exam in Fall. It really sucks and I hate the CB and the school. Should we sue them? I heard one parent say that they spent 2000 dollars for turoing their son for 2 subject test and he got kicked out. How can the school admin or CB can reimbuurse that kind of money or retutor the kid? For a moment, I thought I was standing in some part of a third world country. It is so disappointing and emotionally overwhelming.</p>

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<p>I heard one parent say that they spent 2000 dollars for turoing their son for 2 subject test and he got kicked out.</p>

<p>Holy **** that’s a ton.</p>

<p>I’m sorry. But at least you’ll be partying it up outside the country in a couple weeks, right?</p>

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<p>Firstly, what happened has absolutely nothing to do with the administrator of the test. He simply receives test materials from the College Board, and is given a set of very detailed instructions which he then has to follow. Any errors that could have happened only occurred due to a lack of organization on the College Board’s part.</p>

<p>Yes, this is all very frustrating, but you’re taking it a bit too far. You say that you studied very hard for the SAT Chem test, so do you really think it will have a negative impact on your score to take the test in three months? Studying hard generally equates to actually learning something, and if your knowledge is as ephemeral as you seem to suppose it is, you truly need to rethink the way you approach your studies. Similarly, if the parents you mentioned paid $2000 to tutor their child, I would like to think the child will actually remember what he learned after the test date, or, quite frankly, the money was wasted. I understand that you would’ve liked to get the test over with, but you’ve just been given three months to perfect your knowledge and almost surely get a better score. </p>

<p>And I’d just like to point out that an SAT test centre is, by its very nature, the absolute opposite of “some part of a third world country.” If you were in such a country, you would likely be facing starvation, and you surely would never have even heard of the SAT. Just to put things into perspective.</p>

<p>Oh, and one more thing: don’t sue the College Board. You will lose.</p>

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<p>I am dismayed here. Imagine you go to a test center and some one tells you that you can not take the test since someone messd up the organization and decides to use his judgement w/o consulting CB as to what he should do. It is nonsense. No rationale was involved in selecting people for the test. We registered for the test 2 months or more ago and we got bumped by someone who registered in the last minute. How fair is this? Lots of screwup everywhere. Idiots eveywhere making incompetant decisions…</p>

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<p>collegeboard sucks … they have an effing monopoly and they’re making so much money.</p>

<p>They have a fee of $15 to see your scores 1 week early… </p>

<p>seriously, if you sue anyone, PLEASE sue collegeboard, they make so much money off of random stuff like “score reports”, how they need to be “officially sent from collegeboard” which is incredibly dumb… they just make so much money from random things and from kids taking tests from them since you pretty much HAVE to… hell, they could charge $100 for each test and you would still have to take it.</p>

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<p>@ rockermcr</p>

<p>I think you should be more sympathetic to the OP’s situation. That would be totally disappointing.</p>

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<p>I think you have every right to be extremely ****ed off. That’s a huge blunder by the admin and College Board. To the kid who said the admin had no responsibility on behalf of this incident, why not?! They know how many people are supposed to come because they have a list! If they got a lesser amount of books, they should have called. That’s the only thing that would cross my mind if the same happened to me.</p>

<p>Second off, concerning the “ephemeral” knowledge from studying criticism, lets get realistic!!! When you study for a test, you take in permanently a minority of the information. If you’re some sort of awesome memory user, then good for you. However, the average person does not study in High School for a SAT Subject Test with the intention of remembering it for very much longer unless its something they’re extremely interested in, and don’t go telling me that you shouldn’t take it if you’re not interested. Some school require 2 of 3 of them, so kids that want to go to that school has to take them. I took US History in May and scored a 790. The material to me is dry and doesn’t have any further importance to me. I’ll remember the big facts, but in three months I will not remember the details of the 17th century colonies.</p>

<p>Finally, the reason people take it in June is to have their summer free! I LOVE summer! I do not want to study over the summer, nor do most 17 year olds. Get a life. </p>

<p>Sorry this happened to you kid, I feel for you.</p>

<p>EDIT: I’d love to see College Board get sued.</p>

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<p>Well put, lald99.</p>

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<p>Collegeboard has a ton of problems that should be resolved, but I truly doubt that suing it will accomplish anything except for landing you with a huge pile of lawyer fees. I feel sorry for you, but sometimes life just stinks and you have to move on :(</p>

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<p>…Collegeboard is non-profit.</p>

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<p>I will admit that the administrator’s actions weren’t the best, nor were they particularly logical (why only admit seniors when all seniors will already have applied to college?). However, what else was he supposed to do? Not allow anyone to take the test? The actual admission ticket doesn’t say when the student registered, so his only remaining option would have been to create some sort of lottery, which would have been almost equally unfair. Even if he had called the College Board (how do you know he didn’t?), there really wasn’t anything they could have done to remedy the situation.</p>

<p>I’d also like to point out that the OP is a sophomore, which means that he has around a year and a half remaining to get all of his SAT tests finished. Also, he was about to take the SAT in a subject he had taken an AP exam in already. Trust me, when it comes to chem, a student who took the AP exam is almost guaranteed to do well on the SAT. In this case, even if you forget 70% of the stuff you needed to know for the AP exam, you’ll still know enough to get well over a 700 on the SAT test. </p>

<p>I do sympathize with the OP, don’t get me wrong. The situation sucks. However, it’s not nearly as bad as it seems, and I feel like it’s been ridiculously blown up. This isn’t even the SAT I we’re talking about. It’s a subject test. Seriously, it’s not that big of a deal.</p>

<p>And seriously, the idea of suing the College Board is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, the validity of its “non-profit” status is questionable (many newspaper articles have been published on the subject), but an attempt at suing the organization wouldn’t solve anything, even if the attempt were successful, which itself is very, very unlikely.</p>

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<p>So where does all that money go then?</p>

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<p>^^Testmakers, workers for ETS, etc. Just because a company is non-profit doesn’t mean its employees aren’t paid.</p>

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<p>Yeah, excess money is rolled over into the next fiscal year. Very many non-profit organizations have some extra money that is essentially “saved up” in the event of financial troubles. Look at the recession, for example. People are significantly less willing to make donations to anything in the current economic climate, so it’s absolutely necessary that extra funds be saved up for situations like these.</p>

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<p>I recognize the argument that the OP is a sophomore, and that pursuing a legal case against CB would be pointless. IMO, I think pulling out the whole “third world country” argument lacks logic, rockermcr. Like, seriously? A lot of our daily stresses could be downsized if we look to people who have less than us in other countries. It does not, however, make the problems in our life any less important. Have a little sympathy and try to consider how YOU would feel if that happened to you, rockermcr.</p>

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<p>I do feel for you, it is a bad accident, but I think the person administering the test did the correct thing, to the dismay of you. </p>

<p>If seniors are there to take the test, then they NEED that test. They won’t be there for the heck of it. The tests are obviously necessary in order for them to go to the college of their choice, and at that point, this would be the last testing date for them to take the test. Is it right that that is how it ended and disorganized seniors get the test? No, it’s not, but I definitely think it is much worse for a sophomore, who has 2 more years to take the test potentially mess up a persons college due to selfishness. You can’t blame the person running the test in this event. He should have had more tests, that is his fault/collegeboard’s fault, but when it came down to it, the seniors need the test WAY more than you do at the present time. Then, with the remainder of the tests, they should give away first come first serve. The admission ticket does not say when you registered, so they wouldn’t have anyway at knowing. The only alternative that I could see would be accepting the kids with more than one SATII, and seniors first, then filling in the first come, first serve. </p>

<p>My assumption is, that in your case, they used this off the collegeboard website:
" first-come, first-served basis only if they have enough space, testing materials, and staff—so there is no guarantee that you’ll be admitted to the test. "
It isn’t directly pertaining to your circumstance, but is broad enough to cover it. </p>

<p>At this point, you just have to remain optimistic and realize that this will actually benefit you. For the person who said that kids love summer… it is true they do, but it isn’t like you have to devote your whole summer to studying for this one SATII if you did as much studying as you claim. 3 hours a week (Which is NOTHING) will keep your skills sharp, and if you put in more than that, as of 5 hours a week, your score could even drastically improve.
At this point, you can only be optimistic because the test has already passed, and there isn’t anything you can do to go back into time and take the test. </p>

<p>As for suing collegeboard… I would say you are blowing the thing out of proportion at that point. You don’t really have a case, in my opinion. What grounds will you sue on? That you were emotionally damaged? I mean the most I could see coming out of it, in the long shot that you do win, would be a reimbursement for any studying materials, which is what… a couple hundred bucks? Is that worth all the time, trouble, and money. (For the lawyer and your family) Plus, it’s a long shot you would win anyways.</p>

<p>I would be mad in your shoes, but you can’t overreact.</p>

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<p>All we do in the US is sue.</p>

<p>Find out where the College Board CEO lives, go there, wait until he comes home, and then kick his ass.</p>

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<p>just because an organization is non profit does not mean that its employees work for free
a non profit organization may still pays its employees</p>

<p>this sucks!!! something similar happened to me for the ap test and it was rescheduled to a few weeks later. thankfully i was ok but i knew some people who werent. </p>

<p>theres honestly not much you could do at this point besides get reimbursed</p>