The College Board - a nonprofit?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I was always wondering about how the College Board can claim to be a non-profit, with the rates it charges for all their standardized tests. Ok, so where does my $55 SAT registration fee go to? Buying pencils and paper? And what of hundreds of thousands of other students? I don't buy it.</p>

<p>To make matters worse, they're essentially a monopoly which faces little competition from testing companies like the ACT. The fact of the matter is that all college-bound students will be taking the College Board's tests at some point - whether it is the AP, SAT, or SAT subject tests (and there may be more that I'm missing here).</p>

<p>Can someone elaborate?</p>

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<p>It’s a non-profit because the money charged is supposed to only cover the expenses of running the organization. They fail to mention that part of your fee for taking the SATs/SAT subject tests/AP tests/PSATs/unethically-sold test prep materials also go towards a CEO salary of over $872k plus 23 executives with an average salary of more than $355k (stats are from '09). </p>

<p>[AETR:</a> Revealing College Board’s unethical conduct](<a href=“http://aetr.org/college-board-2009.php]AETR:”>http://aetr.org/college-board-2009.php)</p>

<p>There’s more interesting stuff in the report</p>