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...Bruce J. Breimer, the director of college guidance at the Collegiate School in New York City, de-emphasized the importance of the scoring mistake for admissions for the class...
...It’s embarrassing and infuriating, but I don’t think that many students will be hurt by it,” Breimer said. “It came out just in time to be fixed; if that 100 points makes a difference, there’s still time for the college to make amends on the behalf of the College Board...
...Breimer said he does not wholly support the College Board. He said he believes that the erroneous scoring reveals fundamental flaws in the College Board, a non-profit association...
...think the problems of the College Board transcend this one incident,” Breimer said. “Because they are a monopoly, they have power in an unaccountable way...The SAT is the flagship test and it’s their way or the highway. If they make a mistake, no one can do anything about...
...admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York City, Bruce J. Breimer, doesn’t expect any radical change.“I’d be shocked if this was a factor in some sort of plummeting yield,” he said.Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the campus controversies...