Choate Student Victimized by SAT Scoring Foul-Up Chip Robie ‘06 Affected by College Board’s Big October Blunder
By Ashwini Kadaba ‘08
News Staff Reporter
Last month, ETS and The Collegeboard revealed that there had been major scoring errors on the October 2005 SAT Reasoning Test taken by some 495,000 students across the country. Of those tests, 4,411 were scored incorrectly including that of at least one Choate student. In some cases, the margin of error was up to hundreds of points beneath the correct score.
Choate student Chip Robie ’06 was affected by the scoring problem. His score was 40 points lower than what it should have been--10 points lower in math, and 30 points lower on the writing portion of the test.
“The College Board emailed us half way through break saying that they made this error and that they were going to email the colleges I applied to,” said Chip. “The College Board then emailed the colleges the next day. It didn’t really affect me,” he continued.
The College Board addressed the mistake by contacting both the affected students’ schools and the colleges that the affected students had applied to.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rodenhizer, Testing/Database Coordinator of the school’s College Office in reply to an interview request by The News maintained that “the scoring issues of the October SAT did not affect the outcome of any our students’ college applications.” Mrs. Kathleen Wallace, Dean of Academic affairs commented on the issue, saying, “Errors happen. I just hope that any student was not negatively affected by it.”
