lol

After he's done writing his whiny "waaah, stuff I want should be cheaper or free" crybaby diatribe, maybe he could go and join a OWS protest and cry about the 1%

He makes no actual logical argument for WHY records transfers or testing fees should be cheaper, other than some trite and juvenile point about how the CEO make a lot of money.    That's as retarded as saying that a Corvette should cost less at the dealership because GM executives get paid millions of dollars ... and I really want a Corvette but don't want to pay the price, so it should be cheaper.   Wow - the level of naivete and childishness it take to make an argument like that is pretty depressing, and makes me seriously wonder about all of his AP tests.  

And why is he whining anyway?  He obviously COULD afford it, given all the fancy AP tests he took (AND the fact that he re-took the SAT).  So he's not even complaining about the cost actually being prohibitive, in that it prevented him from doing anything ... he's just being a whiny child.  If he was some kid who was UNABLE to afford some AP tests, because his family is super poor, and it has actually harmed his access to college, then I might have a little sympathy.  

Sad.



Quite the opposite.  

lol - why don't you go tell that to your local bank.  Why should an international electronic wire transfer cost more than a buck or two.  It's just numbers and electricity, right?

There are TONS of reasons for why those electronic transfers shouldn't be "very cheap"  The fact that neither he nor you seem to be aware of that doesn't make it "a great point"  

One of the reasons is that there are going to be lots of different systems that need to be integrated, in order for them to be able to smoothly transmit the data to all kinds of different universities.  It's not just someone sending a few emails to someone else, it's millions of records being sent to thousands of different system.  The registration system used at Ohio State is not going to be the same as the one used by Princeton, nor by Liberty Unievrsity.  There's presumably lots of IT and boring tech stuff going on in the background.  Integrating those different systems and making them communicate with one another is not just happening by accident, and it's not free.  A second point is the issue of confidentiality, and presumably they need to take particular care with making sure that records are not compromised.  Whether that involves encryption, or other clever IT wizardry, I have no idea - but they obviously have to deal with issues of privacy and data security.  Again, these things require resources and are not free.



No, actually it shouldn't    CEO salary is driven by LOTS of different factors, and making a blanket statement like that doesn't actually convey any MEANING or ARGUMENT.  It's just a sensationalist statement that amounts to little more than "waaah, that seems unfair."   Monopolies can charge monopoly pricing (within the bounds of government regulation).  Why in the world would it surprise you that the CEO of a monopoloy is paid well?  Do you also believe that your local garbage collection bill should be lower, because the CEO of your local waste disposal company is paid well?  

Your statement about "to question why it exists" is, quite honestly, bizarre.    It exists because there was a demand, and someone set up a system that made it easier for students to apply to multiple colleges without having to take multiple entrance tests, and this was an efficient solution because BOTH side of equation (both customers, essentially) - student and college - saved times and money by using such a system.  That system grew into the SAT and the College Board, and that is why it exists - because it is superior to the current alternatives, and because there is demand for it.

There is NOTHING in the world that prevents you from developing your own college admission test and trying to get colleges to adopt it, and get students to take it.  If your solution is better than theirs, the market will reward you.



Do you think he TRIED?  Or do you think he just wrote an article whining about how things that he wants costs more than he'd like to pay, and how super-unfair it is that someone makes a lot of money.

While non-profits do not have the reporting requirements of publicly traded corporations, you'd be surprised at how much financial information can often be found for them.



It is 100% lol

You have no idea WHY they've adopted the current model that they use, and what the underlying reason were for why they chose that particular model over alternatives - yet you are absolutely certain that they are somehow ripping you off, or charging much more than they "should" ... and apparently the ONLY logic you can provide for this certainty on your part is because the CEO gets paid a lot.  That's LOL-worthy for sure.

It's very likely that some kind of privacy or confidentiality issue (and concern about liability, schools accessing data not meant for them, etc.) is precisely why they don't just throw all of their records onto a central locations that thousands and thousands of people would have access to - but instead do point-point transfers between their system and the targeted schools.




As an aside, the College Board does other things than just facilitate SAT test taking and sending scores to schools.  While I am not an expert on their particular operations, I imagine that some of their business activities (like fees for testing), likely subsidize other aspects of their operations - possibly helping low-income students get access to testing, and things like that.  Non-profits often do things like that.  The irony of that would be hilarious, because the kid who wrote the article is basically whining about how much he had to spend for his multiple SAT tests, and lots of AP tests - and it might very well be that those "high" fees are precisely what help some low-income student elsewhere even be able to take the SAT at all.  But, like I said, I don't know the specifics.
     

There's that lack of critical thinking again.

Watch out, maybe I make more money that you think I "should"


ETA:  I don't give two shits about the College Board, or SATs, or college admissions.  I am just laughing at people whining about how something costs more than they'd like to pay, without having any underlying understanding of what is driving their costs.  It's NO DIFFERENT from saying "waaaaah - why is iTunes charging me 99 cents for a song, when the could be charging me 5 cents.  That's not fair, because Apple's CEO makes millions"  

What I DO give two shits about is critical thinking.  Too bad there was none of it in that article, or in your arguments.