<p>He admitted he’s venting. Why does everyone feel the need to respond lol</p>
<p>be a good sport. I know it’s awful to be rejected, but if it wasn’t even a first choice and you have great options anyway, why so bitter?? Just move on and forget about nyu. if it was your first choice and you really wanted to go there, I’d understand why you were so upset. Good luck with everything else and be glad you got such great scholarships/acceptances from other places!</p>
<p>I think the ETS has to improve security. There have been security issues with kids overseas getting hold of the test, and transmitting to the US. I think</p>
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<li><p>Anyone taking the test at other than their home high school should have a digital picture taken at entrance. That picture should be submitted with their scores to all colleges, along with notation, not taken at home HS.</p></li>
<li><p>Overseas tests should either be given at same time as US, or diff test.</p></li>
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<p>Great suggestions since students can now choose from many different locations/ test sites where they are not known by the locals. All cheating is unfair and unjust for those working very hard to achieve their own rightful scores.</p>
<p>kayf, your suggestions should be forwarded to ETS. Maybe they are already paying some attention to this since the cheating on SAT tests got on a well know television news channel.</p>
<p>Geisha, why all the harsh words. He’s venting. No need to rub his nose in it.</p>
<p>OK everyone I have something to share here.</p>
<p>I am from India and when daughter went for her first SAT I in 11th grade to a center which was over an hour’s drive from home and the reporting time was 7:45 am and we did not have her passport with us she was not allowed to sit for the SAT. Although she had her school photo ID and I even requested to allow her to enter and I offered to drive back home and fetch her passport and even suggested that if I was not back with it by 9:30, time that they actually start ,then they can ask her to leave. But they refused.</p>
<p>I had difficult time handling my daughter that day. The instruction regarding the passport was delivered on my daughter’s Email the night prior to the SAT, and she missed reading it. But we had to pay for that lapse with time ,effort and huge disappointment for my daughter. </p>
<p>One needs a passport, school ID and SAT entrance ticket to appear for SAT.
So I have a hard time believing that one can have somebody else go and take SAT for them.</p>
<p>^ anialways, I think that is only for international testing. Keep in mind that not many U.S. students even hold a passport or government-issued I.D., and that testing is proctored by staff of individual high schools and state colleges. I have tested at 4 locations here in the U.S. and not one of them asked for anything more than a card with my name and picture on it. Nothing I provided was even current – I alternated between showing an outdated community college I.D. (which you only need a photocopied schedule of enrolled courses to obtain) and an outdated high school I.D.
In one of the testing areas, the proctor didn’t even want to see my SAT entrance ticket, only asked me to point out my name on a list!</p>
<p>Agreed, in the US security not the same. I think “security” predicated at kids taking at their home HS, with teachers who know the kids as proctors.</p>
<p>It probably depends on the proctor. Some insist on photo ID, some are very lax. </p>
<p>I agree – AK admitted he felt bitter and was venting – let the kid get over it. It’s no insult to admitted students. I was deferred back in December from another college, and I remember how bad it felt. Now, I don’t give it a second thought.</p>
<p>Exactly, there are many happy accepted individuals in this forum. You got into your dream school, or “safety” school to the IVYs, let the many more who did not get in allow their intense feelings out in a “harmless” way. The OP might have been sardonic and “slightly” exaggerated some “truths,” but there was enough there to spark off reactions by all of us.</p>
<p>Also have you all noted how many have read this thread compared to other more traditional topics? I say the OP might have allowed many “rejected” individuals vicariously get something off their chest. Let us not forget the people who followed NYU info/ topics and yearned day and night to get in. Let this be a group venting.</p>
<p>We know no school is perfect (yes, even Harvard). NYU is one of them. It is expensive. Aid is often atrocious given how expensive the school is. Admission decisions can be very subjective and the “right” candidate may be turned down for the “wrong” candidate (think of someone who scored high SAT based on ability and lack of ethics in “buying” the scores). It can favor celebrities (what I reported about Emma Watson came from NYU Local, I believe). AND YES, sorry people, THERE IS KNOWN CHEATING AND SCAMMING WITH THE SAT TEST TAKING that the authorities are looking into.</p>
<p>Live and let live. Or, maybe we should be a little gracious. Those who got in, celebrate. Those who did not, let them grieve in their own way, if it is part jest, part anger/ bitterness, part drama. It certainly has fostered a good discussion on the integrity of the SAT scores.</p>
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<p>This is an excellent idea. There are legitimate reasons that someone would take a test at a center not nearest their home (and sometimes the center is all filled up, so if you signed up late, you don’t have a choice). However, this would also help anyone who took the test farther from home who also scored very high. Good for all. I hate cheaters.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with sending the digital pictures to all the colleges. Can cause a whole ‘nother’ set of problems. The admission is needs blind and a picture may make or break a candidates chances. When I took my Nursing licensure exam, we were fingerprinted prior to each section.
The colleges should not have to be responsible for the validity of the test taker, it should be on the high school of the student taking the test.</p>
<p>I agree that it should be high schools or the College Board that is responsible for making sure they test the person whose name is on the test so that colleges have no doubts. This is especially important for applicants like me who have really high SATs but only decent GPAs. That way colleges won’t be second guessing our legitimate and hard-fought test scores.</p>
<p>Just wait until you start taking the LSAT and MCAT. Fingerprint, on the spot photos, cameras, and video cameras in your cubicle. RIDICULOUS.</p>
<p>Anyway this is just a venting thread so people shouldn’t take it too seriously.</p>
<p>Have fun at Slutgers. You clearly didn’t belong here in the first place if you are such a whiner…hipsters hate that :)</p>
<p>We all whine and we have all gotten rejected from colleges that we want to go to. But seriously, grow up and stop with this superiority complex.</p>
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<p>lol. The university treats celebs like athletes but they just don’t bring in the revenue.</p>
<p>Our Valedictorian last year was rejected form MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and almost every school he applied to with his 103 GPA. He was only accepted to RPI, Binghamton, and Cornell (he’s going to Cornell obviously), so don’t get bent out of shape, at least you aren’t him!</p>
<p>^ In another school ten minutes from mine the valedictorian only applied to the Ivies. He got rejected from every single one of them and now he’s going going back to Korea for college.</p>
<p>^ That sucks! But that’s what happens when you get cocky!</p>