<p>Carolyn, keep checking. I bet the 8% dribbles out over the next few days. My niece is in the unreleased batch. I got S's scores- not sure I could have stood the wait, so I truly sympathize.</p>
<p>carolyn, this is my first post after a very long time. My D has the exact same message as yours. I too wonder what this means. I feel for our children - having to listen to everyone else discussing their scores.</p>
<p>Oh Carolyn, bummer!</p>
<p>Based on my D's experiences in the past with a slow-to-be-released SAT2 in writing--hers was a week later than her other scores--it may be the writing sections that are causing the late score releases. My guess would be that it's the 8% that have a wide discrepancy between the two scores for the writing section. This is pure speculation on my part.</p>
<p>I got my scores off of the College Board website this morning , you have to have a registered online account before you can get your scores. Go to <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/students/testing/sat/scores%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com/students/testing/sat/scores</a> and click "SAT Status" then log in. You can also call 1-800-SAT-SCORE, you need your account number, and your social security number. You also need a credit card because they charge you $10.</p>
<p>How did everyone else do? I got 1980</p>
<p>They're not out for everyone. About 8% are not out and will not be released until Friday or next Monday at the earliest. Can't get them over the phone either. Believe me, we have all the correct registration info. </p>
<p>DMD, Oh please don't tell me things like that. I prefer to believe that it is just taking longer to score all those essays, not that there is something wrong with my daughter's test. :)</p>
<p>Carolyn:</p>
<p>pure speculation, but perhaps it's part of CB's quality control that they withhold a RANDOM sample ~8% to give the essays a further look?</p>
<p>However, I can empathize since we were up early this am for Son's scores.</p>
<p>btw: read the ACT posts from Saturday for your D's mental preparation....my S had the exact same rxn as most of the posters.</p>
<p>Carolyn, I didn't mean to upset you. In the end, my D did very well on the SAT2 in writing, with the highest score (whatever that was) on the essay itself--but it was delayed a week.</p>
<p>Dear Carolyn,</p>
<p>I think it is unlikely that there is anything wrong with your daughter's scores; in my experience every kid I have ever tested in 18 years has eventually (within just a few days or a couple of weeks) gotten back results. There has never been any clear reason I could determine as to why they were not back with the others, it just happens. It is maddening to have to wait, I know, and my heart goes out to you. But I hope you will not worry too much.</p>
<p>Carolyn, I am sorry to hear about the delay--it is really frustrating and is probably a result of essay-reading delays. Just wanted to let you know that like some of the other posters, my daughter's writing SAT II score was not available on the announced date a couple of years ago. She had felt very well prepared and was concerned that the test might have gotten lost, or something equally drastic. After an anxious week, her score was finally available online. It was an 800! Worth waiting for. Good luck, and I hope the waiting doesn't get too burdensome for you and your daughter.</p>
<p>I have heard that students who do not follow the standard five paragraph, topic sentence, development, conclusion type format and who venture something more creative might receive their grades late. It would make sense if they have to have someone review it. Momofthree's comments make a lot of sense though.</p>
<p>Oh Carolyn, how disappointing! This month-long wait has been frustrating, and now this. I am quite surprised that CB says only 8% were released - that sounds way too low. D did get hers after I logged onto CC and saw they had been released a bit early. She's satisfied, though it wasn't what she'd been aiming for. I think she'll stick with these scores, focus on APs and SAT2s for now. If she feels really strongly about it, I told her she could always retake in the fall, but I have a feeling there will be other things she'll want to do by then.</p>
<p>Will say a prayer to "our mother of infinite patience" for you.</p>
<p>My scores aren't out yet and I'm getting anxious :( My test was delayed because of snow though, so at least none of my friends have thiers either.</p>
<p>Daughter feels somewhat better. Of the six friends at her high school that took the test on the same day and in the same place, only one had her scores posted today. The rest all received the "check back on April 18" message. So at least she feels like she is not alone.</p>
<p>But in other news, she announced to me on the ride home this afternoon that she is going to take the SAT II's in June just in case she changes her mind about applying to UCSC so she has a backup if she decides the schools on her list are too small for her along the way. OOOOOKAY. I've suggested this to her many times and have always been met with the teenage-stare-of-parental-death. Ours is not to question why, ours is just to hang on for the wild road ahead :)</p>
<p>Carolyn:</p>
<p>Your D has a good head on her teenage shoulders. ;)</p>
<p>Marite, When I let her find it for herself. :)</p>
<p>mmm, hear my prayer, mm,mm, but that's what I've been telling you, mm,mm, infinite patience, mm,mm, it's THAT look, mm,mm, infinite patience, mm,mm, deep breath, hold, hold, release, mm,mm ...</p>
<p>carolyn, I mentioned earlier that my D's SAT score was also delayed. When I picked her up from school she reported that none of her friends at her school had received their scores. So I doubt whether the delay was caused by non-compliance with a certain essay structure or because of the lack of inter-grader reliability for the essays. It could be that some essay graders are taking more time.</p>
<p>Firefly - as usual you crack me up. :)</p>
<p>Pnyer, Thanks, that helps. And a belated welcome!!!!</p>
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I've suggested this to her many times and have always been met with the teenage-stare-of-parental-death. Ours is not to question why, ours is just to hang on for the wild road ahead
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I cannot tell you how many things I could say this about;)and have said it about since my D was about 6 weeks old....I will call it TSOPD from now on.</p>