<p>If we can look at our SAT and SAT II grades online (I didn't take the ACT so I don't know if you can do that online as well) why can't we see our AP grades online? It just doesn't make sense. Well, that's all I had to say. Thanks for reading and have a great summer everyone.</p>
<p>I agree, we should be able to see our AP scores online.</p>
<p>we can see our IB scores online at</p>
<p><a href="http://results.ibo.org/%5B/url%5D">http://results.ibo.org/</a></p>
<p>IB rules....AP sucks....lol</p>
<p>my school is too into sports to ever do anything as serious as IB..our yearbook had over 50 pages devoted to sports teams with losing records (or at least no major achievements save one or two teams) while all of our academic stuff was put on one page</p>
<p>I don't get why IB people think they're so high and godly. The AP program is just as good if not better. But anyway, it takes a lot longer to grade the AP test because of all the free response. Two teachers at my school are graders and they went on June 2nd to grade. They said that going in they don't even have answers for the free response questions, but they spend days generating acceptable answers and point values for each. Not to mention there are many less graders per test than there are for SAT. Besides, when they are finished grading you can call in anyway, it's only 8 dollars and if you took a lot of tests that's not a bad deal at all.</p>
<p>You can see your ACT grades online also.</p>
<p>I don't understand why they don't put the AP grades online. They provide all the background material there. Perhaps if they delayed the scores a little longer they could input all of them so they could be viewed as part of the standard College Board score report.</p>
<p>Just my view.</p>
<p>We can't see our AP scores online so that we have to pay college board to get them by phone. The "nonprofit" collegeboard cant be happy with just 80 bucks a test. Duh!</p>
<p>is collegeboard really nonprofit? who gets the bulk of the fees, collegeboard or ETS?</p>
<p>ETS is a profit-making machine</p>
<p>I'm guessing that CB's justification for not having AP scores online is that the registration is handled through the school and not individually online or by paper. Which still doesn't make sense because they still use your social security numbers to track our scores, so it couldn't be that hard to tie the two databases (SAT and AP) together.</p>
<p>As for SAT scores, IIRC, they've only been avaliable for free online for less than two years. Before that you had to pay eight or ten bucks to get your scores online (the same fee as getting them on the phone). </p>
<p>Ronlivs - both CB and ETS are nonprofits but this doesn't mean that the company isn't constantly getting richer off of us. Read this discussion of nonprofit status from an old thread.</p>
<p>ooh good point. actually, i think part of non profit means that there is no owner who actually reaps the money in as profit...but like the thread said the workers can give themselves large salaries that isnt much different from profit. ETS is non profit too?</p>
<p>Yup.. From the ETS website:</p>
<p>How can ETS be nonprofit if it makes money every year?</p>
<p>Our nonprofit status is a reflection of our purpose: ETS was established to serve education, and therefore performs a public service. However, ETS is also a private, self-supporting organization. That means we must make enough revenue each year to cover our expenses, plus enough extra to support the work we want to do in the years ahead.</p>
<p>We are continuously exploring new forms of measurement, new teaching tools, and new applications of technology in assessment. ETS routinely supports the research, surveys, field-tests, and analysis these developmental projects require.</p>
<p>The top 10 execs at CB all make $400,000+, so not like they are starving either.</p>
<p>the term non profit is a glaring misconception. It means that the company as a whole does not earn profit but the employees still earn a salary. For example, the company could have an annual profit of $0 but it is perfectly legal for the employees to earn $500,000.</p>
<p>In any case, I propose that if you really want your AP scores early (or in my case need them bc I make my college schedule on July 1 and would like to know what I get out of/still have to fulfill) you should pay an extra $4 with your AP exams (only once though, not 4 per test) and then if you don't use the score service by the time you get your scores in the mail, CB refunds your money. If you do look at it, you just pay another $4. Kind of like insurance. If only there were insurance to make sure you didn't screw up on your Biology AP and not know anything on one of the essays...but that's a tangent.</p>
<p>CB really robs you when it comes time to apply to colleges. You gotta pay them each time you send scores to colleges. Is there really anything stopping CB from making the process of sending scores all online and free? If you can see your scores online, why cant colleges? All it would take is some sort of authentication system, where say, where you give colleges your social security number, and they would give that over to CB, who in turn would send over your scores to colleges over the net, free of charge. </p>
<p>But of course CB has no incentive to. Therein lies the problem.</p>
<p>That's the problem when there is no competition: no pressure to lower prices or innovate. Thank god for capitalism.</p>