About 4,000 students who took the SAT last October received test scores that were lower than they should have been — some by as much as 100 points — because of technical problems in the scoring process, the College Board said yesterday.
The College Board, which administers the SAT, said it had begun to notify college admissions offices, high school counselors and affected students this week in letters and in e-mail messages, and expected to complete the process by Thursday. It also said that it planned to return registration fees and charges for sending test scores to colleges to the students whose scores were in error.
The disclosure came at the height of the college admissions season, at a time when many colleges have already made many of their decisions about which students to accept, reject or defer.
But this is my favorite. It's what--March? And apparently
Chiara Coletti, vice president for public affairs at the College Board, said last night that the board first learned that it might have a problem in late December when two students questioned the scores they had received. She said it had taken time to investigate the extent of the problem.magnitude."
Ms. Coletti said that as the organization reviewed the tests, it realized the errors were not limited to a few students but were "a systemic problem." She said the College Board has had "things like this before, but not of this
C'mon. December?
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