A Screw-Up by Any Other Name

The folks in charge of the SAT exam are having a rough time. It came out that a bunch of scores were incorrectly calculated, meaning that some had higher scores than they should have had and some were lower than they should have been. For a school like IU South Bend, it's not going to make much of a difference (which our Admissions director confirmed). But getting into a prestigious school, a 40-50 point differential could be significant. I'm wondering now if everyone that took the SAT and was unhappy with their score could now say, "Hey, if you messed up their score, how can I trust mine?"

The official line from SAT? It was indicated that "a complex confluence of events" led to the errors in scoring. Oh, now that's the ultimate company line. Now I know we in higher education sometimes like the lofty language (pay your bill, not at the cashier, but the "bursar") but come on now, y'all just simply screwed up. So to the folks at SAT, enjoy the next few months as colleges make admissions decisions and the lawsuits begin.