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[quote=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.”[/quote]

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