David Hose

March 8, 2023

Bad service, degradation and corruption of the College Board

I was attempting to get my AP and SAT scores from 2004 and 2005, this year, February 2023 and March 2023. In my day back then in the early 00s, College Board for all purposes seemed a highly reputable company. All that has changed. For one, they now, these days, hide behind phone centers staffed by people who can't speak intelligible English at all! Two, they could not find my best SAT score, 1480/1600 from my junior year of High School, Fall 2004, of which I am proud of. I may still have official proof of it from back in those days somewhere in my own personal archives but for now I needed new proof of it. They found other scores like my AP scores and older SAT scores but not my best SAT score, which makes no sense. They made the excuse that after 4-5 years they are not responsible for keeping scores. They are the leading testing service in the United States, they ought to have the money and obligation to maintain scores and data via paper and electronic servers in perpetuity. With the poor customer service, the insult to injury of a firm that tests English speaking excellence hiding behind phone centers that can't speak intelligible English, all parents, students, schools, government and so on should be concerned about the College Board, hold them accountable and demand reform from their administration and executive leadership. I will be writing them a letter about this problem as well and expect that, as is most often the case in situations like this, they will never respond and do everything to ignore and sabotage all complaints! The score reports that they did send were juvenile, low quality and unprofessional, compared to in the past. The SAT score report, for instance, had pixelated fixidys font (I kid you not) and the date on the SAT scores was ambiguous, it did not specify whether it was the date of the Month or the Month plus year. Additionally, I earned three AP awards from my AP testing--AP Scholar, AP Scholar with Honors and AP Scholar with Distinction... they did not provide me with any proof of these awards (although I did receive a certificate for each of them back in 2004 and 2005 which I still have).

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