Question About Collegeboard Score Reports

CBatch
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:34:22 +0000

Alright, here’s the low down with College Board (And how ridiculous they can be):

First off, the whole score report process and its inception is genius, but incredibly exploitative. It’s all electronic, yet they charge you for an instantaneous and inexpensive sending process. Technically, it shouldn’t take a few weeks to send your reports. It should take a few milliseconds, especially considering it’s only a few kilobytes of information. The whole “rush” shipping is just a scam to get extra money. You can’t “rush” digital information. They just charge you the extra $25 or so (On top of the $10 for each college) because you’re nervous and you want your scores to get there as soon as possible.

Relax. As long as you paid for and submitted your scores at a reasonable time (ie before January 1st or before a specific college’s deadline) you should be fine. Even if it still says pending. Your scores should already be in the system, and sometimes it might not show up as sent until the college requests the “stored” scores… if that makes sense.

All in all, don’t worry too much. It took exactly one week for my scores to send, and that was with regular delivery. Rush shipping is a joke.