Collegeboard denying accommodations on SAT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My DS was denied an extended time accommodation on the SAT, but got less important ones like small group testing. This was shocking to us because he's had an ADHD diagnosis since 1st grade and uses extended time regularly (slow reader), so there's a clear history. He got extended time and other expected accommodations for the ACT. Our school told us that the Collegeboard is getting much stricter with the extended time accommodations, specifically. Maybe in light of the Varsity Blues scandal? Is that what other people are finding or hearing? Or is it possible the school messed up his application and is just covering?

Everyone has an ADHD accommodation these days

Typically families and students from private and the W public schools. Check the national stats … gaming the system.

[Anonymous]

Do the same kids who get academic accommodation get accommodation for lacrosse ean swimming? Why not, if the kids have physical disabilities? An extra 2 seconds added to the 200 meter butterfly? American hypocrisy in full bloom!

[Anonymous]

… neuromuscularskeletal dysfunction affecting speed in performing these athletic feats.

Perhaps ribbons and trinkets to last place finishers are a movement towards accommodation for athletic. Scholarships in colleges!

Agree. Brazen hypocrisy typical of Americans!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the same kids who get academic accommodation get accommodation for lacrosse ean swimming? Why not, if the kids have physical disabilities? An extra 2 seconds added to the 200 meter butterfly? American hypocrisy in full bloom!

They kind of do get accommodations. We have the special Olympics, special leagues for handicaps, and certain physical assignments are waived for kids who are physically not capable

[Anonymous]

But not for the “regular” Olympics. The appropriate analogy would be “special” SAT/ACT and/or special colleges with special degrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does his testing specifically say he has slow processing speed? Is the testing recent?

You might get better help on the Special Needs board.

Go to college board.

Interesting as we were told ACT much stricter than SAT so were grateful when DS got one for ACT.

Also extended time is so much more important for the ACT. So that's great he got it for that test. Maybe just have him take that one and see how he does.

[Anonymous]

Apparently, about 4% a year of SAT takers get extra time. The amount of time varies. Some get 50% more time, others get even more time over several days.

College Board data indicates that people who get extra time score lower on average than people who take the test within the normal time.

The College Board has been vetting requests for extra time more closely because of the Varsity Blues federal criminal investigation in which rich parents paid a consultant, Rick Singer, to get their kids into selective colleges. Here is a quote from Singer from an affidavit in the case where he offered to get a client’s kid extra time on the ACT or SAT for $75,000:

“We need to get your daughter tested for a learning difference. Here’s why. If she gets tested for a learning difference, and let’s say it’s my person that does it, or whoever you want to do it, I need that person to get her 100 percent extended time over multiple days. So what that means is, we’ll have to show that there’s some discrepancies in her learning, which there’s gotta be anyways. And if she gets 100 percent . . . then — I own two schools — I can have her test at one of my schools, and I can guarantee her a score. If it’s ACT, I can guarantee her a score in the, in the 30s. And if it’s the SAT, I can guarantee her a score in the 1400s. Now, all of a sudden, her test score does not become an issue with all the colleges.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But not for the “regular” Olympics. The appropriate analogy would be “special” SAT/ACT and/or special colleges with special degrees.

The regular Olympics are an elite competition. Elite scholastic competitions don’t give accommodations like time extensions either.

[Anonymous]

How do the Big 3 schools look at kids who need extra time?

[Anonymous]

“We need to get your daughter tested for a learning difference. Here’s why. If she gets tested for a learning difference, and let’s say it’s my person that does it, or whoever you want to do it, I need that person to get her 100 percent extended time over multiple days. So what that means is, we’ll have to show that there’s some discrepancies in her learning, which there’s gotta be anyways. And if she gets 100 percent . . . then — I own two schools — I can have her test at one of my schools, and I can guarantee her a score. If it’s ACT, I can guarantee her a score in the, in the 30s. And if it’s the SAT, I can guarantee her a score in the 1400s. Now, all of a sudden, her test score does not become an issue with all the colleges.””

Decades of criminal machinations of America’s private and wealthy zip code public schools…. Centuries of Affirmative Action for legacy, “lacrose” type “athletes”, and the social construct of race; namely White.

[Anonymous]

“Decades of criminal machinations of America’s private and wealthy zip code public schools…. Centuries of Affirmative Action for legacy, “lacrose” type “athletes”, and the social construct of race; namely White.”

Who ( what racial social construct) are the historical and present gate keepers of these elite colleges and universities?

Are these the same characters presently involved in census and redistributing our nation to guarantee the vote over last last couple of centuries?

Same criminal ninycompoops involved in the “last ditch” agonal and disparate insurrectional Jan 6, 2021, attempt to turn back the clock?

“Tick-tick, tick-tick …..”

[Anonymous]

More important than getting them for SATs, make sure your psycho ed and documentation is updated so he has them in college.

[Anonymous]

We could not afford independent testing for my DD. She had testing done by the school system. That testing was too old for college board. She was denied accommodations.

[Anonymous]

I am sure the “professional” documentation for accommodation comes from the neighbors in their plush country clubs and summer pool communities…self-fulfilling socially constructed neighborhood bubble.

[Anonymous]

… neighborhood bubble providing steady and sundry streams of opioid, “anxiolytic” and ADD “therapeutics” for all.