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[quote=Anonymous]wow Wilkie Farr firm co-chair did this for his dumb daughter (who was scoring a 22 on practice ACT's). that's absurdly low.

"- I think her highest score so
far is a 22, andshe’ll probably get up to a 24 on her next practice test. The fact that
this could be different than what she had been showing on the practice test--
CW-1 What-- so you tell me if you want-- would [you] prefer to have her get a 28? 27?
28? 29? Probably based on what you’re just telling me right now, right, that--
maybe that’s a better approach, because that’s still a very good score with her
abilities and disability but--
CAPLAN Well, I-- I’m thinking 30, 31 is all we need to do here.
CW-1 Okay. Done deal. Done deal. It’ll be-- it’ll be 30, 31. So what happens is the test is
curved. I don’t know if you know that. The test is curved against everybody in the
country. So it can-- we can be one question off, or two questions off, and it can
be a 30,it can be a 31. It may be a 29. It could be a 32. Just depends on the curve
of the day. But it’ll be-- it’ll be right there.
CAPLAN But what I’m asking you is, will that be an issue? So when Logic Prep asks us,
well, how did she score,will they say, “Hmm?”
CW-1 So - well, I don’t think it matters what theysay, because at the end of the day she
had a great day,they get credit for her doing really well andthey have nothing to
do with ACT and/or the colleges she’s going to apply [to].
CAPLAN And they don’t feel incumbent on them to say this issuspicious?"

he later says the doctored score can't be higher than 32 because if it gets too high "It’s just-- it’s just going to be hard to justify in light-- light of-- [CW-1] look--
"

it'll be too suspicious because even dad knows how dumb she is. [/quote]

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