SAT Hit with Security Breaches; Went Ahead With Leaked Tests

[vibrantviolet]

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/

Really hoping that colleges review their decisions in the next couple of days before any final admittances are made.

[ucbalumnus]

@hebegebe

This is very different from what most of the rest of the world does, which is that a single test determines your future.

Some countries do it differently, rather than one test determining your entire post-high-school future. Canadian universities do not require external standardized tests for their domestic applicants, but that is because they trust that, at the province level, a high school course is consistent in its content, rigor, and grading across various high schools (not likely to happen in the US). The UK-based systems appear to use standardized final exams for high school courses (O-levels and A-levels), but those are more like SAT subject and AP tests than SAT reasoning tests.

[jgoggs]

Good for Reuters for doing some actual reporting on this topic.

I wish they had followed up on how “exams that had never been given anywhere” or that were “totally new” could have been compromised:

The breaches extended to the hour-long tests the SAT offers in specialized subjects. Those exams are often required for students applying to elite U.S. colleges. Eight of the 10 existing Mathematics Level II subject tests were compromised – three in their entirety and five in part, including two exams that had never been given anywhere, the PowerPoint shows. Ten of the 13 Biology exams were also compromised in whole or in part, including one totally new test.

[vibrantviolet]

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/

Hoping that Harvard and all other colleges to release decisions in the next few days take this under advisement and double check any acceptances determined by Thursday. Unfortunately, at this point I highly doubt Harvard would review many of the acceptances they have made.