<p>I seriously doubt that the collegeboard/ETS will admit to any preferential treatment at this time. If they were to publish the SAT scores of those who received special time versus those who did not by city and town, and if they were to push for identification on SAT score reports as to who had extra time and who did not, they would lose a large number of SAT test takerss to their competitior the ACT. The SAT is already losing a great deal of credibiity. They have for decades enjoyed a virtual monopoly. They have such power that a student could think their SAT score report was wrong and pay $50.00 for handscroing and never receive any proof that their exam was actually handscored and if it was handscored and an error was found if it would be corrected. I believe it is likely that collegeboard has been making scoring errors for years and have not notified students of such errors. It could even be possible that they never intended to publicize the large scoring error from October but when they launched their own investigation the problems was leaked to the public since it was of such great magnitude and they had to annoucned it. Afterall, it took months after they knew about it for them to coe forward.
Collegeboard is under much criticism today and I doubt they will do anything to affect the number of test takers who will continue to sign up to take their exams. While the public might be happy to read that they are being fouthcoming about those who live in places like Greenwich who get extra time or take the SAT under untimed conditions, - it is those test takers who are seeking scores of over 600 which are the collegeboard's strongest base of customers. Collegeboard does not want to lose them.
The SAT is losing credibility. I have noticed that at some of the top elite boarding schools in the northeast that college counselors are indicating openly to students that the ACT is a better test because it is not based on logic but knowledge, that students can send the highest scores and dont have to report lower scores.</p>