<p>Even if I could get extra time, there’s no way I’d want to spend another minute taking that test. Seriously, 4-5 hours is long enough.</p>
<p>Maybe taht is because an extra 5 minutes or so would not help you so much, but it would have given me the perfect score.</p>
<p>dying-ember the extra time should be for students like you. What frustrates me is not the students who truly need it, but the students who have no learning disability but who seek to get the diagnosis so that they can gain an advantage on the SAT. That is not a fair playing field. College admission officers have no way to know when they are looking at applicants that one with 750 750 for example, took the test under regular time conditions, while another applicant might have had 750 800, but took the exam with an additional two hours. The student who got 750 800 might have really only have gotten 650 650 if he took the exam without extended time, but the college admission officers have no way to know that applicants scores were so high because he had a significant amount of time to take the test. There are several categories of more time given which range from 50% more time to Time and a half. That means that at the bear mininum, on a three and a half hour test, someone given the least amount of time would be given an additional one hour and fourtyfive minuites to take the exam. Someone with 100% additional time would be given an additional 3 and a half hours to take the exam, and the last situation is well you can just figure it out - unbelievably long.</p>
<p>From our point of view, not being mentally disabled, we perceive it to be that way, but for people with that condition or believe to be “mentally disabled”, to them it actually works out to having the same amount of time.</p>
<p>But what I think the College Board fails to consider is the severity of an individual’s disability. They should create a system based on a scale. </p>
<p>The more severe an individual’s condition is, the more time that can be allotted to take the exam, equal to that, in a sense, of a “non-mentally” disabled individual. </p>
<p>I know that sounds so wrong…and confrontational, but after their diagnosis, their condition can be categorized according to a scale in relation to the amount of time that can be offered to them.</p>
<p>This would be more fair rather than having EVERYONE who claims or has a learning disability with the same amount of time.</p>
<p>I used extended time and my score went up 470 points. I don’t have ADD, but my psychologist thinks I do! I got into my top choice college, while many others with legitimate scores did not. Not seeking to be inflammatory, but a life lesson could be learned here: take advantage of any and every opportunity presented to you. As life isn’t fair, you should take any break you’re given.</p>
<p>guglielmo0810~ I wouldn’t flaunt this here. CCs will rip you up like dogs.</p>
<p>If CCers want to rip me up, that’s alright. I’ve had many screen names on this website so far, and my IP address has been banned multiple times. But I just keep coming back. Internet proxies are useful things.</p>
<p>It’s my way of sticking it to The Man, or in this case, The Mods.</p>
<p>I’m not flaunting, I am just delivering a harsh dose of reality.</p>
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<p>My God . . . life isn’t fair, but you re-entrench the unfair system by feeding into it, and that’s bad.</p>
<p>So you used your extra 470 points to get into a college you didn’t deserve. Did your “disability” prepare you for the classes you shouldn’t really be in? If you have a legitamite disability it’s one thing, but admitting that others with legitmate scores didn’t get in… The points your extra time added could have been added the same way the rest of us change our scores. By actually working for it.</p>
<p>Hot stuff is happening in this thread! </p>
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<p>Personally, I think the whole admissions process is bunk, and that’s why I have no problem abusing it.</p>
<p>Minorities have affirmative action, why can’t an impoverished white kid have an hour or two extra on the SATs?</p>
<p>As far as a college I didn’t deserve - perhaps. But I am certainly capable of doing the work. I’m just lazy.</p>
<p>For the poster who honestly admitted taking extended time and raising his scores 470 points and getting into his top choice when many legitimate test takers did not - here is my response.
A student can pay a huge fee to have a high priced consultant repackage him to make him appear to have passions, interests and talents that he or she doe not truly have (ie. the Harvard student with the two book deal who as it turns out cannot write), and while that student may be able to trick college admission officers, it is my belief that the student with authentic interests, talents and passions will prevail over all. It is that student who will bring something unique to his or her college community whereever that may be.
The way I see it there is no difference between the type of applicant who creates empty clubs so they can call themselves president, or lists his name as running a fundraiser that actually his father was involved with, or hires a consultant that costs as much as one year at a private college so that he or she will stand out when they are a strong student but otherwise ordinary. Some may see it as a game, but at the end of the day, one has to be able to look in the mirror and recognize who they see.</p>
<p>“Personally, I think the whole admissions process is bunk, and that’s why I have no problem abusing it.
Minorities have affirmative action, why can’t an impoverished white kid have an hour or two extra on the SATs?”</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with this. The admissions process is very corrupt and a lot of people just can’t compare, especially when kids with money and minorities get around things. Collegebound says about looking in the mirror, but are you able to put yourself into college? No, you’re still being judged against people who have inflated applications. I don’t know how I would change the process to make it more equal but something has to be done.
Well, actually I don’t care anymore because I’m graduating soon and I’ll just transfer after a year. But if I was still applying everywhere then I would be seriously ****ed off about this whole ordeal.</p>
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<p>That’s what they all say. I have no problem looking at myself in the mirror, and am actually quite proud of the fact that I was ruthless enough to make it this far. I have never slept better than the evening I discovered I had been admitted to my top choice college, with basically a full ride, because my family is dirt poor.</p>
<p>And who said I wouldn’t bring something unique to the college community, or that I wasn’t qualified? I certainly never did. Though I did use some underhanded methods, the point is that I was admitted. The adcoms must have seen SOMETHING in me, besides sheer numbers. Mine weren’t the greatest, even with that 470 point boost.</p>
<p>But I still am going to attend an ivy league school in the fall. Not everyone can make such a claim.</p>
<p>I think raising from a 1770 on the SATs to a 2240 might have actually put me in the running, but it was my other qualities that got me admitted(Read: I am not a boring academic automaton).</p>
<p>You know it’s quite depressing to know that people who don’t have a disablity, fake a disability. It isn’t morally right.
It’s actually insulting to those like me with an actual LD.
It just isn’t so glaringly offensive since it’s not a big mental or physical disability. Nonetheless, it isn’t right to treat a psychological/neurological condition like it’s just a tool. It isn’t fun to have an LD.
Treat LD like you would any other disability: respect it.</p>
<p>Glitterhairdye - Thank you for making that point. I never realized the side you presented. While I talked about the unfairness of wealthy kids trying to get the SAT edge with extended time, I never thought about the impoverished applicant who does not qualify for affirmative action. I can totally understand your view which probably includes the fact that wealthy applicants can afford to pay for consultants, tutors, and an array of advisors to help beef up their applications. I can see why a lower income applicant might try to get a little extra time on the SAT to try to equal the playing field, and no one should judge you for that.
To the poster who said they had a learning disability and are upset others would fake it to get extended time, I too see your point of view. I am sure it is not fun to have a disability even mild, and upsetting to see others getting a benefit from being labeled with the disability, without having any of the struggles that come with it. I hope that you can arrange to get extended time if you need it, because it was meant for test takers like you.
I guess I can see why an impoverished applicant might try to get the extended time, and I can clearly see why a student with a disability would be upset upon hearing others who did have one qualified for extended time.
What does not seem right is that wealthy applicants who already have many of the benefits others do not, can find a way to get yet another additional edge, by getting extended time on the SAT</p>
<p>guglielmo0810, if your family is dirt poor, how did you afford to get a psychologist to give you a “favourable” diagnosis?</p>
<p>To those saying that minorities get advantages that white kids dont, look at the statistics for minorities and there SAT scores, whenever theres a direct correlation with test scores and your ethnicity, it shows that the test is unfair for minorities, stop complaining.</p>
<p>Being poor makes it okay to fake a learning disability? Please.</p>
<p>Fsu-uf gets the stupid post of the day award, correlation is not causation…</p>