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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe he had somebody on the inside on the College Board.  He seemed to have enough other people in on the scam.[/quote]

See above. When the CB and ACT balked at extra time for these clearly non-disabled students whose parents hired Singer,[b] the FBI asked them to grant it, so they could catch the parents [/b]as well as the paid off proctors who administered the tests and changed the students' answers.

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Singer has been doing this a long time so there have been many students that got accommodations through. So put on your thinking cap -it really isn’t that difficult. Because Singer wouldn’t have been successful in his business if the parents in past years didn’t successfully receive accommodations for their kids.[/quote]

You have no idea how many parents tried the SAT route and couldn't get it through the system -- even with Singer (who had 700+ clients and only 31 have been indicted). Students are denied every single day.

The sports back door he exploited did not necessarily require cheating on the test scores. Some kids were smart enough to get a decent SAT score, but they needed the sports hook to secure a spot. [/quote]

Look at the stats and data. Accommodations jumped after College Board stopped flagging. Does anyone really believe suddenly all these disabled kids jumped overnight? [b]Compare data of kids w accommodations in rich private schools vs elsewhere. Why is there a higher percentage? I see it at my DCs private’s - it is NOT difficult to get accomodations. [/b][/quote]

It's actually rather difficult to get accomodations in public school.  Private schools are too afraid to stand up to the parents.  [/quote]

Interesting you say that.  My child has severe anxiety.  In public school she would get a 504.  Her private will not accommodate her because they do not accommodate for anxiety.  So I guess it's hard to say.  BTW, we have not sought accommodations form the College Board, so I have no idea if they would allow accommodations.[/quote]

The numbers are deceptive. In many private schools, the kids get a diagnosis for purposes of the extra time and other accommodations on standardized tests, not because they actually need them in school. Where a student actually needs supports, the school is more likely to counsel them out or not admit them in the first place. [/quote]

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