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<p>Very sad indeed. The gist of it is that students attending a $4500 Amherst enrichment program will have the exclusive opportunity to take an August SAT test.</p>
<p>What the heck? At first I didn’t believe that this was happening, but it seems to be true. Seems weird that collegeboard would do something like this. If they want to run a true pilot program for summer testing, they could just do it by a random region.</p>
<p>Its sad how many parents think that the only way to get a good score is to spend $4,500.</p>
<p>Things like this are why standardized tests are on the way out.</p>
<p>On the way out? From what I can see, it is as entrenched as ever.</p>
<p>Why are more and more schools dropping their test requirements and moving to “test optional” policies then.</p>
<p>No question, there are a few more schools these days that are tests optional but it is not significant enough for me to notice. As far as I know, everyone I know takes the tests. I can’t even imagine how can schools fairly assess students from all kinds of different places without such tool.</p>
<p>Well of course they still take it, because dropping it is a fairly new concept. Things like that don’t catch on overnight. All it takes is just one or two fairly big name schools each year to drop it, and soon enough it’ll catch on. </p>
<p>And its not like standardized tests are perfect and completely fair, example in the article.</p>
<p>It’s not but it is not be all end all factor. It is another factor amongst many for assessing students. GPA as the lone major factor does not seem like the right thing to do either with different school grading standard and tendencies for grade inflation/deflation.</p>
<p>SATs are big business. In 2010-2011, 2 million students took the SAT. Multiplied by 50 dollars a pop…</p>
<p>For example, the writing section was added because the UC schools were contemplated dropping the SAT as a requirement.</p>
<p>Hopefully more schools will follow the example set by institutions such as Wake Forest University.</p>
<p>Not to mention SAT II’s, score verifications, sending scores, etc…</p>
<p>Then there are PSATs, APs, late registrations, rush scores, practice tests, score verifications, CSS profiles, selling your information to colleges and businesses …</p>
<p>this is absolute inequality. There are lots of people out there that cannot afford $4500 for a boost in SAT score. Standardized testing is just ridiculous. Many one on one tutoring firms charge around $60-$100 per hour of tutoring. Several people at my school goes to one and said that it helps, but I just don’t see the point and fairness in spending money for better scores. If I had $5000 for SAT preparation, I would rather use that money for some electronic projects I am interested in.</p>
<p>If there is going to be an August test date, it ought to be open to everyone.</p>
<p>Lol, this literally doesnt affect any of you… it’s rich people doing what rich people do, who cares, move on.</p>
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<p>I sure hope more people don’t have that attitude.</p>
<p>I’d love to be able to take the SAT in August, as it would help me (and others) who want to retake before applying EA to colleges. But it’s pretty low it comes with such a high price tag.</p>
<p>Write to Gaston Caperton, President</p>
<p>Kathryn Juric, Vice President, SAT Program</p>
<p>The College Board</p>
<p>45 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023-6917 </p>
<p>and voice your opinion about unfair this is to the rest of the world!</p>
<p>The ceo of cb banked nearly a million last year or 2010. Non-profit my as$</p>
<p>Popular misconception: Non profit doesn’t mean officers, workers, don’t make good money. Colleges are non profit, but top college presidents make over $1million+</p>