losing the answers, part deux

August

Jordan Whitley of Spring Valley is “trapped”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060810/NEWS03/608100334/1024/NEWS08 in a mess made by the Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT.

The ETS can find his test booklet but not his answer sheet. And if their search is unsuccessful, he’s got to take the test over.

But it’s not just a question of that, as traumatic and time-consuming as it would be. Felician College needs those scores before they can let him in. The next time the test comes around is October. He had hoped to be admitted for the coming semester, but it doesn’t look as if that’ll happen.

He’s not the first local kid to be hurt by slip-ups at the ETS (known as the Evil Testing Serpent to the goofs who write “Up Your Score”:http://www.upyourscore.com/). Several were caught up in this spring’s “scandal”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603220321 when 4,000 students’ scores were lost.

Their answer sheets got wet, the ETS said at the time.

This kind of thing may add to the “controversy”:http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/21/sat about the SAT’s influence over college admissions.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 11th, 2006 at 1:38 pm by Lanning Taliaferro.
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6 Responses to “losing the answers, part deux”

Diana August 13th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
AH! As if the stress of having to take the SAT isn’t enough! Poor kid.
Chris August 14th, 2006 at 11:42 am
This is ridiculous. The student shouldn’t be punished (and that’s exactly what taking the SAT again is – I wonder if he’ll have to pay the registration fee again?) for the mistakes of the ETS.
Steve C. August 14th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
The student is always punished, and of course he will have to pay. Unless it gets HUGE media attention. Because they will “claim” he never took it.
Valerie August 14th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
Why can’t Felician admit or not admit him on the basis of his school record? Didn’t he apply and probably write an essay as part of the application? Everyone is acting as if the SAT exists in a vacuum, as if there is no other way to show a student’s academic quality. If Felician can’t decide whether to admit a student without an SAT score, then maybe they can’t judge them at all.
Steve C. August 14th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Good Point. I was accepted to my college based on my grades and not my SAT scores. SATs were never supposed to be the only standard.

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