4,400 students told SAT scores wrong

Students prepare for months, even years for the SAT in hopes of getting into the college of their dreams. The test is known as a decisive factor in admissions decisions and is relied on by admissions counselor at schools across the country. But in October 2005, 1 percent of the students received miscalculated test results. \nIn a class action suit against The College Board, the company responsible for administering the tests and also scanning the tests, students claimed that their scores were incorrect. This glitch in the system affected about 4,400 students accounting for 1 percent of all the students who took it in October 2005, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.\nStudents whose tests were improperly scored, will be notified and can receive $275, or if they feel the damages were greater can file a larger claim. Junior Ryan Hylas took the SAT’s in October 2005, but he was not part of the 1 percent of test takers with skewed results. \n“Since I took the test in October, naturally I was worried, but I didn’t apply to any schools where it would’ve affected me because I took the ACT’s as well,” he said. “But if my scores would’ve been wrong, I don’t feel that $275 would’ve been an adequate reparation.”\nAt IU the average SAT score for admitted students in 2007 was 1146. So what if there were students admitted with the miscalculated scores from October 2005 here at IU? The Office of Enrollment Management’s Roger Thompson said, “We would handle it on a case-by-case basis and work with them to determine if they were admissible.”