<p>I can't see how students are going to want to take this test 3 or 4 times anymore. It is just too time consuming.</p>
<p>This could be a good thing for many reasons.</p>
<p>However, this might cut into Collegeboard's profits. I wonder how the Collegeboard will respond.</p>
<p>Simple economics- they will raise the price!</p>
<p>First we need to find out how many kids take it three or four times now. Maybe if more of the current group of kids who only take it once go to taking it twice, College Board still gets more total registrations.</p>
<p>The SAT is a scam if you have to pay for it. ;) I mean, a scholarship is a scam if you have to pay to apply right? And National Honor Roll or whatever it is called is a scam if you have to buy a book to be in it right?</p>
<p>As a student, I believe they will still be willing to take the test as many times as they would the old version. Yes, it's longer, but once the student is up early on that Saturday morning and in gear for the test, they will test as best they can until it's done. I doubt you will see students saying "well, I would've taken it 4 times if it was only 3 hours, but since it's 4 hours I'm only taking it twice." Still seems to be that it's a Saturday morning activity, regardless of the increase in length.</p>
<p>Collegeboard is a non-profit, right?</p>
<p>birdofprey425 ..dat is incorrect. dey use kids to get money out of them. all tht sat prepping only further puts money into people who take advantage of kids who want to score well</p>
<p>rexrun: you, my friend, are incorrect. </p>
<p>"The College Board is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 4,700 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves over three and a half million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program®(AP). The College Board is committed to the principles of excellence and equity, and that commitment is embodied in all of its programs, services, activities, and concerns."</p>
<p>Bern, bern!!! Something can be "not-for-profit" or officially registered with the US Government (for IRS purposes) as "nonprofit" and STILL make out like bandits!</p>
<p>Example - the HUGE salaries paid to Red Cross top dogs, comparable to many commercial executives. In our area the head of the United Way makes a salary that's over a quarter of a million a year. A nonprofit medical agency recently upgraded its "campus" so now its workers work in a luxurious setting that looks like it would fit right in in Palm Beach. The list goes on and on and on --- I could fill up the CC board with examples.</p>
<p>To be "not-for-profit" in the IRS's eyes had NOTHING to do with not charging a lot of money, not raking it in, not paying HUGE salaries, and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean that you can only charge COST for services, with no "profit" tacked on! I don't have the definition in front of me for filing for nonprofit status, but part of it is simply serving a certain kind of educational, or other public good, service, etc. People start nonprofits all the time and pay themselves huge salaries.</p>
<p>Maybe someone else has the definition and can post it. Part of the def. is that stock is not issued, and excess income is supposed to be spent on charitable purposes, but that "excess" is after what the org. decides it wants to pay in salaries, furniture, etc. etc. etc. Hence the huge salaries and gorgeous buildings that many nonprofits own. (PS - a not-for-profit is a TYPE of nonprofit; the latter term is wider).</p>
<p>But it is one of the MAJOR misunderstandings in the US. Believing nonprofits don't charge OVER expenses is like believing the earth is flat!</p>
<p>of couse non-profits can make out like bandits. The question was, however, if the College Board was a non-profit organization or not.</p>
<p>The question of whether non-profits can make great profits a completely different one. All I was answering was whether it was or was not a non-profit.</p>
<p>Voronwe, you are correct in all your statements. </p>
<p>So pretty much all we are saying is that yes the college board is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT organization yet they are still bringing in large profits by taking advantage of students, their parents, high schools and universities across the nation. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I believe the profit goes to ETS, the administrator for many of CB's examinations.</p>
<p>I told you it was a scam.</p>
<p>What's a scam about it?</p>