College Board to Pay Students $2.85 million

[richs73cas]

<p>The New York Times Reported

Two big testing organizations, the College Board and NCS Pearson Inc., said yesterday that they had agreed to pay $2.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving more than 4,000 students whose SAT exams were incorrectly scored in 2005.</p>

<p>Under the proposed settlement, the students would receive $275 each or possibly more, if they can show they had suffered greater damages. The board said last year that for 4,411 students, the reported scores were too low — in a few instances by as many as 450 points out of a possible 2,400.

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25sat.html?hp[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25sat.html?hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Since there are about 4000 students and they will get about $275. each, the pay out to those damaged comes to $1,100,000.</p>

<p>Guess the Attorneys get to keep the other $ 1,750,000. :)</p>

[Johnson181]

<p>Yep- attorneys get a whole lot of the settlements.</p>

<p>$275 is practically nothing. And can’t compensate for any scholarship that may have been made impossible because of cb’s mistake.</p>

<p>However, a mistake like that is so ridiculously rare… and cb never claimed to be perfect (as far as I know).</p>

[RootBeerCaesar]

<p>lol@collegeboard non-profit = got pwnt</p>