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“Sixteen out of the 4,000 students who were affected had score increases between 200 and 400 points,” said Jennifer Topiel, executive director of public affairs for the College Board.
The College Board has notified those students and schools adversely affected by the erroneous scoring, which represent only .8% of the total number of students who took the SAT in October, the board said in a statement.
“Only five percent of the affected students saw score increases of 100 points or more” said O’Reilly. “If their SAT score wasn’t quite strong enough but their high school record and their extracurricular activities were strong...
According to a statement from Harvard College’s Office of Admissions, only about four dozen Harvard applicants were affected by the scoring mistake. “No student’s admission decision has been, or will be, affected by those scoring errors,” the admissions...
The study took a careful look at girls who were 17 1/2 years old, because past studies have indicated that older teens are less likely to communicate with parents about abortion than younger teens and are therefore "more likely to be affected by parental involvement laws," according to the authors...