SAT Errors

Evidently the SAT folks were challenged by some students to hand-grade the SAT tests they took last October and before the review was over 4,000 students were found to have been given scores lower than they earned. 5% of them were given grades 100 points lower than they should have had. This, of course, is certainly enough to affect admission decisions at many colleges. There is now a scramble to see if early applications were affected and whether some of the pending decisions must be reversed. The whole thing was blamed on a computer scanner in Texas.