AP scores out

[sanddrag]

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

Oh yes, definately.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

Yep... but the ACT company does that too... I couldn't resist paying the $8 for my ACT results.

[macurtis]

I'll wait before I pay. *wonders if her AP teacher read at least one of her essays and knowing he's an AP reader*

[rowe]

Originally Posted by kayla13

Has the price risen at all did you use to have to pay? Is it inflation if so how much will I have to pay when I do an AP??? thats a little bit of a rip off.....

The $8 is only for the phone call, if you have patience and don't need to see your scores right away, then you can wait until the end of July and they'll send them in paper form.

[Ryan F.]

I have to say that the eight dollar fee thoroughly disgusts me. They already know the scores, and they're probably on a computer somewhere. So why not just release them to all the people who already paid 70 some dollars?

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Ryan Forystek

I have to say that the eight dollar fee thoroughly disgusts me. They already know the scores, and they're probably on a computer somewhere. So why not just release them to all the people who already paid 70 some dollars?

I agree, it's disgusting. Why not e-mail or make them available one collegeboard.com like they do SAT scores.
and 70 some dollars? Try $82 per test......cuz my school doesn't like to give financial aid to those who deserve it and keep the school test scores up.

[Ryan F.]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

and 70 some dollars? Try $82 per test

Whoops...couldn't exactly remember the price....our school does not help out on the price either.

[jpsaul7usa]

Hehe, I remember those days of waiting for AP scores. Now that I have a collegiate perspective of it, it really isn't that expensive. If you did well you just got a class or two out of the way that in college would have cost you a ton more. In Arizona, by my estimate, it's roughly $440 per 3-credit class. I came into Northern Arizona with 20 AP credits (6 from AP US, 6 from AP Euro, 8 for AP Chem), and spent ~$200 for them. That's about $2,730 saved, and $8 really doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm pretty sure that most people here are going on to more expensive undergraduate schools than NAU, so you're saving even more.

But yes, the College Board is evil. Once your scores are transferred you'll never have to deal with them again. For a non-profit they sure do have a lot of overhead. Capitalist pigs.

[sanddrag]

For CPP it is like $970 per quarter for 6-16 units I believe. This quarter I have only 8 units so it is a little more per class than other quarters when I take 16. Kind of messed up but that's just the way it is. To top it off, the class I really wanted to take this summer which I have trying to get since last winter I finally got into it by grabbing the last available seat and then the class was cancelled. But I'm going to check out the Rose Float club and hopefully get involved in that where I'll learn how to weld.

[Goobergunch]

Originally Posted by macurtis

*wonders if her AP teacher read at least one of her essays and knowing he's an AP reader*

My AP Calculus/Statistics teacher, who's also an AP reader, told us that if they get a paper belonging to one of their students, they have to give it to another teacher to avoid any bias.

[macurtis]

Originally Posted by Goobergunch

My AP Calculus/Statistics teacher, who's also an AP reader, told us that if they get a paper belonging to one of their students, they have to give it to another teacher to avoid any bias.

Mr. Ferry told us that the AP readers don't even have a way of knowing which student wrote the essay because all of the documents are barcoded. *shrugs* I'm just speaking from what he told me. He told us that it's possible he'd read one of ours, but he'd have no way of knowing because all the essays are barcoded.

[Joshua May]

I finally got impatient enough to just pay the $8 and make the phone call.

I got a 5 on both the Calculus BC exam and the AB subsection of the test, which gives me 8 units of credit.

At Berkeley it's like $3200 in tuition and fees for a 16 unit semester, so that saves me about $1600 from a $90 test. I'd say that's a nice return.

[santosh]

I called and they somehow didn't match my social security number with my birthday. I am guessing that is pretty bad. What can I do now?

[KarenH]

Remember, the $8 isn't just the cost of a phone call.

Do you wind up connected with a live person? If so, you have to include the time the person spends talking to you. At $8 per call, what kind of wages does that person earn? At least half the $8 would probably go to overhead (computer interfaces, network security, electricity, etc.). And the person may be paid per hour, not per phone call--paid whether the phones are ringing off the hook, or are silent. If it's an automated system, it has to be set up and run by someone, who most likely wants to be paid.

Even nonprofits have to be run like a business in order to survive. Everything they do costs money, except for the actual time donated by volunteers. They must charge fees accordingly.

If the College Board is "evil" for charging fees, then consider this: Will your employer consider you "evil" for charging for your time? Or will you work for free? Of course not! EVERYBODY wants to be paid for working, or for providing services or goods. That includes nonprofits, for-profits, small business, Big Business, labor unions, the government--not because they're greedy, but because everybody needs money.

Your test fees cover certain items, such as having the scores mailed to you. They do not cover the phone service, which costs extra, hence the extra charge. If you don't absolutely need your test scores early, consider the $8 an optional expense, the same as going to see a movie. At $10 per ticket the last time we went to a movie theater, the phone call could be the better deal.

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