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Did Derrick Griffin get his score?

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Wasn't he supposed to be here on the 2nd? Did he even get his test score back? I highly doubt this guy gets in. Nothing makes me feel positive about landing this guy.
 
HurricaneGlory said:
TheMatador said:
If you read my earlier post, with a link to the ACT site, the scores come out on a rolling basis, through early February. Hopefully his comes out early enough for him to enroll, and also hopefully, he will have the points he needs. I'm assuming he has not yet received the score report, so he doesn't know.

Let's keep our fingers crossed, or pray, or whatever your preference is. I'd like to see this kid at UM, on the field, and on the court, and making it in the classroom.
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I saw somewhere that stated 90% or even higher of the scores (w/o writing) come out at the first date.
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Derrick spelled his name wrong on the test...so it's taking longer to track him down. We back.
 
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Plzwork4 said:
HurricaneGlory said:
TheMatador said:
If you read my earlier post, with a link to the ACT site, the scores come out on a rolling basis, through early February. Hopefully his comes out early enough for him to enroll, and also hopefully, he will have the points he needs. I'm assuming he has not yet received the score report, so he doesn't know.

Let's keep our fingers crossed, or pray, or whatever your preference is. I'd like to see this kid at UM, on the field, and on the court, and making it in the classroom.
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I saw somewhere that stated 90% or even higher of the scores (w/o writing) come out at the first date.
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Derrick spelled his name wrong on the test...so it's taking longer to track him down. We back.
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Is this true?????????
 
I'm a little bit optimistic. He is quoted as saying he has a total of 68 on the 4 sections of the test and needs a 70.

When you take the test multiple times, you can pick and choose which test you take each individual section score from. Suppose you have taken it twice and have scores of S11 = 16 (test 1 section 1), S12 = 14 (test 1 section 2), S13 = 18, S14 = 16, S21 = 15, S22 = 15, S23 = 19, S24 = 18, your best scores would be 16. 15, 19, and 18 and a total of 68 (your total from test 1 = 64 and test 2 = 67). The point is, you only have to improve your best score in any section by 2 points or improve your best score in 2 or more sections by 1 point each to get your 2 points.

With the time and work he has put in, I think there is room for some optimism but I'm not overly excited yet.
 
I just don't get how this kid has yet to get his scores back. I took the ACT 3 times last year and each time they came out on the standard return date provided by the ACT.
 
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Odds are that Griffin did not get the necessary score of he would've told the world by now...
 
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bosherthegreat said:
I just don't get how this kid has yet to get his scores back. I took the ACT 3 times last year and each time they came out on the standard return date provided by the ACT.
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I'm surprised you passed. Go back and click the link I provided to the ACT website. Not all scores come out the first day, or even the first week. The scores come out through the first week in February. If you were not lazy--which you apparently are--or were willing to and able to read--you would know that. You would also find out that there are numerous factors which go into delaying the score reporting. Now, I don't know if Ace's explanation of the selection of scores from various test sessions is something that the ACT does, or something that the school does when they get your multiple scores, but if it is done by the ACT, perhaps it takes longer. The ACT might have to do extra calculations to arrive at a final composite score. Or, there could be other reasons why his score is taking longer to report.

In any event, the ACT site makes it very clear that not every score is reported on the first week, which, I think,would have been the week before last. As the ACT site says itself, the scores are reported weekly (on Wednesday and Friday--which doesn't seem to make sense). Last Wednesday was a holiday, so they might have only reported this past Friday. Either he has received his score, and doesn't want to make it known publicly,which suggests bad news, or he has not received it yet. Just because you received it early in the process does not mean that everyone else does. Perhaps when the person is a multiple taker it does take longer. Perhaps, when the score goes up a lot, it is flagged and they look harder to make sure there was nothing improper in the test process. I think the NCAA Clearinghouse has been very concerned about substitute test takers for years. I was told some years ago, by someone from his hometown, that one of our star players from the early '80's had someone take his test for him and he got into Miami. I also had a cousin who, according to family legend, paid somebody to take his SAT for him and ended up at Penn, an Ivy League school.

Sorry for insulting you, but you deserved it. The ACT is very clear about its process of reporting the test results.
 
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561Cane said:
Odds are that Griffin did not get the necessary score of he would've told the world by now...
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Or, perhaps more likely, he has not yet received the score, which you would know if you read what I posted from the ACT website. Not all scores come out this early, they still report scores as late as the first week in February, which, of course, would not be good for Derrick, since he would not be able to enroll this semester.

I'll post the link again:

http://www.actstudent.org/scores/viewing-scores.html

Whether 90% or more come out the first week, I don't know. I'm not going back to the ACT website, I'm just reposting the link. I already did the research, which others who whine and complain have not done. They should be better informed than I am, since they are much closer in time to taking the ACT than I am. In fact, I took the ACT probably before many of you were born. Back then, hardly anybody took the ACT, everybody took the SAT. The ACT was really the backwater of testing. I just took it in case I developed a sudden, late interest in a college that required it.

Well, I did go back and read the ACT website, and I notice that I did slightly misinterpret what they said: they said that scores are reported each week, usually Wednesday and Friday. It did not say they report weekly, only that they report each week, and they usually do so twice each week. So I slightly misinterpreted that. The important thing is, they say all scores are generally reported within 8 weeks after the test date. So, when did he take? Early December? That, theoretically, could take it out to February.

Whether there are any special factors, or something that makes it more complex, like calculating composite scores, I don't know. Although most scores might get reported very early, perhaps that is more likely for simple scores, and not composite scores, which I assume is when they have to go through and select among the highest from several testing dates.

Let's hope the ACT finishes the process soon and Derrick makes it. We want him badly, and it seems the young man has his heart set on being a student-athlete at the University of Miami. I hope that means he has his heart set on getting an education, unlike that fool DT who went to Kentucky.
 
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TheMatador said:
bosherthegreat said:
I just don't get how this kid has yet to get his scores back. I took the ACT 3 times last year and each time they came out on the standard return date provided by the ACT.
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I'm surprised you passed. Go back and click the link I provided to the ACT website. Not all scores come out the first day, or even the first week. The scores come out through the first week in February. If you were not lazy--which you apparently are--or were willing to and able to read--you would know that. You would also find out that there are numerous factors which go into delaying the score reporting. Now, I don't know if Ace's explanation of the selection of scores from various test sessions is something that the ACT does, or something that the school does when they get your multiple scores, but if it is done by the ACT, perhaps it takes longer. The ACT might have to do extra calculations to arrive at a final composite score. Or, there could be other reasons why his score is taking longer to report.

In any event, the ACT site makes it very clear that not every score is reported on the first week, which, I think,would have been the week before last. As the ACT site says itself, the scores are reported weekly (on Wednesday and Friday--which doesn't seem to make sense). Last Wednesday was a holiday, so they might have only reported this past Friday. Either he has received his score, and doesn't want to make it known publicly,which suggests bad news, or he has not received it yet. Just because you received it early in the process does not mean that everyone else does. Perhaps when the person is a multiple taker it does take longer. Perhaps, when the score goes up a lot, it is flagged and they look harder to make sure there was nothing improper in the test process. I think the NCAA Clearinghouse has been very concerned about substitute test takers for years. I was told some years ago, by someone from his hometown, that one of our star players from the early '80's had someone take his test for him and he got into Miami. I also had a cousin who, according to family legend, paid somebody to take his SAT for him and ended up at Penn, an Ivy League school.

Sorry for insulting you, but you deserved it. The ACT is very clear about its process of reporting the test results.
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Hold up. You're surprised I passed? What does my return date have anything to do with the scores I received. The ACT isn't composed of a 5 man team struggling to return tests week after week. Who died and made you commander in chief of American College Testing.
 
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