Talk:College Board

HQ
Uhh, isn't the board's HQ in Princeton? I received my SAT score report back from Princeton, NJ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simfish (talk • contribs) 22:46, 27 August 2004


 * They have offices in other places, but the HQ is in NYC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WhisperToMe (talk • contribs) 22:41, 29 May 2009

AP scores
"'Some colleges will accept a 2 or above on an AP test as college credit, others a 3 or 4.'" I have never heard of a college accepting a 2, which means "possibly qualified." Should that be changed? -jhoff — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.42.184.35 (talk) 22:55, 11 August 2005


 * I changed it.--naryathegreat | (talk) 20:31, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Investigation?
according to one of my friends, he claims that the College Board is under investigation due to the fact that some of the top members of the company (CEO's and what not) are averaging $350,000-$400,000 per month. Does anyone know anything about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.212.96.26 (talk) 16:11, 20 October 2006

History
Why isn't there any of the early history leading up to the founding of the college board? This article gives the mistaken impression that CB coalesced out of thin air -- no mention of the New England academies and network of preparatory schools that fed the colleges of the 1800s with students, and the entrance examinations proctored by the colleges; and the problems when the new public high schools began vying for admission for *their* students, and the search for a common college entrance exam to be used by all candidates, devised and proctored separately; no mention of the Committee of Ten (1899) that became CEEB (1900) to address these needs. The best source on this is Harold S. Wechsler, The Qualified Student: A History of Selective College Admission in America (1976). There is also a dissertation by Miyahara (1995) under John W Meyer.

Also, there is no mention of the push for standardized written entrance exams to be used across institutions, headed by N. Butler and C. Eliot and the elite colleges in the "middle states". No mention of the social engineering - scientific measures ideology behind the SAT (1926), which were first machine scored in 1941, for which the ACT emerged in 1959 as a less elite alternative to the SAT.

Peel off this layer of history, and it gets even more interesting: eugenists and their racial preservation agendas (Galton, Pearson, etc), the invention of statistics and quartiling as a way of identifying those that needed to be sterilized, and the few that *were* -- to prevent the "regression of the mean" as Sir Francis Galton named it. Just look at Nazi Germany if you want a good picture of what this all looks like in action. This sad history ended the popular appeal of eugenics, but not, the many vestiges that we now take for granted, like standardized testing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.32.146.13 (talk) 01:45, 28 September 2009

Needs to be opened up for updates
. Kentc321 (talk) 23:51, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome to propose or request changes to the article. ElKevbo (talk) 01:30, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

NY Times article - November 2023
Lots of good information here, both about AP tests and the organization's finances. For example:

"The College Board holds assets that are akin to a wealthy university — approximately $2 billion at the end of 2022, including more than $200 million in offshore accounts. Mr. Coleman, the chief executive, made $2.1 million last year." -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:26, 18 November 2023 (UTC)