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Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« on: May 06, 2013, 08:49:25 PM »
I've just spent the past two hours trying to help my daughter navigate the Collegeboard SAT web site.  No amount of profanity can express my opinion of it...I've used every word I know.  I also just tried to call their Voicemail Hell line.  That might even be worse thyan the website.  As usual, my wife told me about this today -the last day to register for the June test.  I'm done.  I'd go OJ on them if they were in this room right now.  The ACT will have to do.
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2013, 09:05:59 PM »
The SAT is sort of like the senile great uncle of exams.  Everybody sorta cares because it's family, but it's old, pretty much useless, and smells slightly funny.
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2013, 10:36:20 PM »
Quote from: Lee on May 06, 2013, 08:49:25 PM
I've just spent the past two hours trying to help my daughter navigate the Collegeboard SAT web site.  No amount of profanity can express my opinion of it...I've used every word I know.  I also just tried to call their Voicemail Hell line.  That might even be worse thyan the website.  As usual, my wife told me about this today -the last day to register for the June test.  I'm done.  I'd go OJ on them if they were in this room right now.  The ACT will have to do.

It's all part of the test, you see  ;)

 :lol:
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2013, 06:50:57 AM »
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. They only want those who will struggle through a ridiculous challenge to complete it. Finally wrapped it up at 11:30 last night - got both of them signed up.
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2013, 09:52:14 AM »
Another thing is that the entire purpose of a college education is to teach you how to fill out forms  :laugh:
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2013, 10:15:19 AM »
hmm, daughter 1 had no issues, she retook it last weekend to try to better her 2200
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2013, 10:51:14 AM »
When I took the SAT there was no "on line" option since Algore hadn't invented the Internet yet.

(I understand the test has changed considerably since then.)
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2013, 03:40:29 PM »
I got pissed once because I answered 373 for the boiling point of water and was marked wrong.
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2013, 04:07:11 PM »
Quote from: 230RN on May 07, 2013, 03:40:29 PM
I got pissed once because I answered 373 for the boiling point of water and was marked wrong.

Absolutely!
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Re: Need to vent- regarding SAT registration
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2013, 07:12:33 AM »
The problem ended up being that they had both registered last year with different user names. Forgotten of course. My wife had given me one incorrect user name and told me that my other daughter had never registered at all. I only found this out after going through the registration process several times and getting rejected. Tried to create new user names, went through the whole process, then was rejected again and told that the original profile needed to be used. eventually recovered the original user names, changed passwords, and registered them for the exams.
So, just another fun, last minute project delegated to me by the wife, after already working a 12 hour day.
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