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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what is happening is the College board is releasing score percentiles by test and then averaging those to report. My kid took the test twice to superscore into the 1%. His friends, many of whom are Asian, would take it as many times as they had to until they hit 1550 and were preparing for years..literally starting in 8th grade. Two kids took it four to five times. There was a stampede to get to the SAT before it went digital in that group. My kid did digital because he didn’t want to bother traveling and staying in a hotel to take it earlier on paper.

This entire group of kids reports as being over 1550 but that isn’t counting superscore and the numerous retakes. This doesn’t even factor in the [b]cheating rings [/b]that are out there.

So what college board is reporting is not what is actually being reported to colleges. [/quote]

I thought that I have been around the SAT block...I have never heard this.  [/quote]
DP. I think this is (was?) much more of a thing internationally than domestically. I've never heard of it in the US, not even on reddit, whereas cheating was significant and common internationally, so common that at one point, College Board had to stop all tests in a few countries.

My understanding is that the move to digital was, in large part, to combat this cheating. No idea whether that has been successful.[/quote]

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