<p>Oh, so I’m a fool because I don’t feel the need to give in to the College Board’s manipulative mind games and pay them an EXTRA $8.00 for something that should be FREE?!</p>
<p>Liv4physicz - You don’t pay to check when your scores will be in, just the actual call when they the machine tells you what you got. Some of us are extremely nervous, or extremely excited to find out what we got, some of us are taking summer courses, and need the credit for it, some of us are needing them for placement. When you compare the amount of tuition, books, and sleepless nights of a college course to an $8 call… I’d definitely make the call.</p>
<p>Anyhow, it’ll be free next year, cos it’ll all be online rather than through the phone. They supposedly have to charge us 8$ since it’s through the phone.</p>
<p>liv4physicz if you think its crazy then just dont do it and shut up</p>
<p>^^ I humbly disagree with your logic.</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t call them manipulative mind games whatsoever, but to each their own I suppose. And for something that should be free? I disagree, not being a CB sympathizer here or anything, but if the scores are being sent to you for free at a latter date, and we want it earlier, then we should pay. When has anything accelerated or at a quicker pace been free? That’s like saying “Oh, gee, I can go see this movie in theaters now, and pay $11 for a ticket… Or I can wait 4 years until it comes on USA… I think I’ll just wait.” To some, those days may seem like years. You don’t know what’s on the line and why everyone is specifically getting their scores early.</p>
<p>Some people have to go to orientation and need to know their scores to make their schedules. Sometimes the <em>whopping</em> $8 is worth it.</p>
<p>Does anyone think to combat the expenses of setting up the online scores reporting for the first year or two they’ll charge for getting them online? And do you think this is a move to stop paper scoring all together?</p>
<p>Protip, if you don’t wanna pay just wait until the fifth and call your school.</p>
<p>Anyways, if the money goes to ensuring that the best AP readers grade my test I don’t think I’d mind.</p>
<p>Yes but there’s no point hearing what they are a week early. They are what they are. Not worth $8. Not the same thing as your movie analogy therefore. Movies actually give you the benefit of not waiting FOUR YEARS, not a mere fourteen days. Scores are very different than the experience of a movie and luxury of seeing it at a theater.</p>
<p>^^ the “best” AP graders may not be the most generous.</p>
<p>How dare they push the date back to June 30th like this? He explicitly said that the scores may have been available a day “or TWO” early and now they just pull the rug out from under our feet like that? This is tyranny, plain and simple… simply unfair that we are literally BEGGING them to let us pay $8 and all they can say to us is “we’re too lazy to work faster, please just wait.”</p>
<p>You could’ve spent the past hour that you argued this with us working to earn $8. Then we wouldn’t all be in this predicament of dealing with your illogical squabbling.</p>
<p>… Im done with these posts</p>
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<p>Know what I call a luxury? Not having to wake up in the mornings, sometimes on cold, rainy days, and walk to a class, just to sit and hear a lecture for 90 minutes, getting stupid assignments, and paying for that all. Know how to gain that luxury? Take an AP exam and pass it, if I want to pay $8 to see if I need to annoy myself 3x a week and do that^, then I’d like to without any criticism from others. If I don’t, then I’d also like to do that too. It’s only $8, and that’s for ALL of your scores. Seems rather cheap. If you don’t want to do it, then don’t, but there are others who would like to. And as I said, to some of us waiting to get Trevor’s update on our phones, one day can seem like one year.</p>
<p>My prediction of 11:26 AM EST today from the previous thread still stands.</p>
<p>Only 2 more dreadful days. This may have been asked already, but does anyone know the earliest time one can call? </p>
<p>What tests did you guys take? I took: Stats, Gov, Lang, Spanish, and Chem.</p>
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<p>Since when does generosity ever have anything whatsoever to do with AP scoring? You get the score you deserve, not the score your grader generously decides to give you. If he gets his score back, and gets a 5, it isn’t because they were being generous, but because he earned it. If he gets a 2, or a 3, it isn’t because they were in a bad mood, but because he deserved it. AP graders are extremly objective and their scoring is observed and watched until it can be decided they aren’t being “generous” with it.</p>
<p>Spanish, Gov, Physics C: Mech, Physics C: E&M, Bio</p>
<p>^ hearing whether or not you scored high enough to earn college credit a week or two early doesn’t actually change the score</p>
<p>trust me, I’ve got PLENTY of $8s.</p>