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For me, as a parent of a student about to embark on her college application testing, I see this as a "right to privacy" issue, similar to medical records. I seriously question the moral and perhaps even legal right of institutions to demand to see results from all exams taken, especially when it is the student, not the institution, who pays to take the exams.
For me, the question should be: Who owns the scores? College Board? Colleges? Or the student who signs up, pays, and actually takes the exams. If the scores are the private property of the student, then Stanford, Yale and others have no legal right to demand to see them. If the scores were government administered, then that would be a very different scenario.
I wish some enterprising legal Eagle out there would challenge Stanford, Yale and others on this issue. If they feel so strongly about seeing all scores, then they should be negotiating with College Board over the reporting process, not bullying high school kids into willingly submiting potentially damaging scores to them. I am seriously turned off by their stance on this issue.
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