Did Derrick Griffin get his score?

[bacane]

The Matador sounds full of himself. ****, didn't realize we had someone on the board moonlighting with the NCAA Eligibility Center.

 

[TheMatador]

The Matador sounds full of himself. ****, didn't realize we had someone on the board moonlighting with the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Yeah, right. I'm just sick of people who can't, or won't, read, and then whine and complain incessantly.

***** you.

 

[TheMatador]

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.

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.

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.

Why can't you read? Why don't you read? The information was posted. Go look at it. The test scores don't all come out the same time, or in the first week. They come out over a period extending into February.

Instead of making snide remarks about me to hide your laziness or stupidity, go and read what the ACT test site says.

Sorry you don't like what I have said, but you've set yourself up for it. Griffin might have received his score--and doesn't want to say so publicly-or he has not because not everyone receives it right away.

Your return date has nothing to do with the fact you passed. What is surprising is that you passed and then say that you received yours right away, so that everybody should have received it right away, when I already posted the exact link and information from the ACT that not everyone receives it right away. For someone who passed, you displayed an inability to look at the information that was already in this thread concerning what the ACT says itself about when scores are available. I was, of course, being facetious, but in post after post, I see people constantly making the most absurd comments about whether Derrick passed, he must not have passed, because Joe Blow got his score early, so Derrick must already have it, and doesn't want to say, because he didn't get his score..etc., etc. That might be true, but it is more likely that he simply has not yet received it, perhaps because they have to calculate a composite score or for some other reason, or because some scores are simply processed and posted sooner than others.

 

[bosherthegreat]

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.

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.

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.

Why can't you read? Why don't you read? The information was posted. Go look at it. The test scores don't all come out the same time, or in the first week. They come out over a period extending into February.

Instead of making snide remarks about me to hide your laziness or stupidity, go and read what the ACT test site says.

Sorry you don't like what I have said, but you've set yourself up for it. Griffin might have received his score--and doesn't want to say so publicly-or he has not because not everyone receives it right away.

Your return date has nothing to do with the fact you passed. What is surprising is that you passed and then say that you received yours right away, so that everybody should have received it right away, when I already posted the exact link and information from the ACT that not everyone receives it right away. For someone who passed, you displayed an inability to look at the information that was already in this thread concerning what the ACT says itself about when scores are available. I was, of course, being facetious, but in post after post, I see people constantly making the most absurd comments about whether Derrick passed, he must not have passed, because Joe Blow got his score early, so Derrick must already have it, and doesn't want to say, because he didn't get his score..etc., etc. That might be true, but it is more likely that he simply has not yet received it, perhaps because they have to calculate a composite score or for some other reason, or because some scores are simply processed and posted sooner than others.

All I'm saying is if you have a wife, god bless her. You're ignorance as a whole is alarming. For starters, next time around, try to condense your paragraphs into clearer thoughts. Really, it'll make you look like that much less of an ***hole. The ACT puts out there that all scores may not be returned until February as a precautionary measure, in case there actually is a problem with returning the test. I'm trying to be the bigger man here, really, but step down from your throne for the love of god.

 

[pkk1927]

Unless you work for the ACT (which i doubt you do). No one wants to hear your explanations. Bosherthegreat has a point, a lot of scores have came out and it is reasonable to wonder why he hasn't gotten his. You were a jerk for no reason.

The Matador sounds full of himself. ****, didn't realize we had someone on the board moonlighting with the NCAA Eligibility Center.

Yeah, right. I'm just sick of people who can't, or won't, read, and then whine and complain incessantly.

***** you.

 

[bsebalstud19]

Im surprised you passed considering you have to edit your posts to correct your grammar. Not sure why you started attacking a fellow canes' fan for no reason.

Odds are that Griffin did not get the necessary score of he would've told the world by now...

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.

 

[arcane]

I spoke to a mom with two high-school girls who took the ACT in December. This woman is right in the middle of the process and told me that the kids don't all get their ACT scores at the same time. I said something like, "Oh yeah, I just saw something about that on the internet," referring to the fact that I had seen a comment to that effect on this very website. The statement that TheMatador linked to on the official ACT site seems to confirm this.

 

[Angry Ibis]

Matador posting facts and getting called out. Others posting opinions and calling out Matador.

Makes sense.

griffin will either be in this class or not. Hope he is in.

Not everything needs to be a fight on here.

 

[TwentySix]

College freshman here: Just thought I'd say that me and my friends got our scores at different times. Some people get them within 3 weeks, some people it's well over a month. I'm hoping he got it and just keeping it a surprise, and we get an update that he's signed soon. Lol

 

[bear]

Griffin sounds like a great young dude. Whether he passes or not I hope he ends ups happy and successful in WHATEVER he does.

Let's all stop arguing about everything and anything and use our energy to get behind our canes.

If he does pass Berrios, Griffin, Coley, Dorsett, Waters will be as good as any college receiving corps.

 

[Ispyin]

NO more facts please, especially coming from the actual ACT site itself or people who have recently been through the process. We need opinions.

Unless the opinion is from Ferman, then its a fact. Even if disproved later.

 

[rmcid]

Fact: not all scores come out at the same time.
Fact: that does not rule out a theory that vast majority do.
Fact: Matador was being a ****.

Back to our porstings about Griffin. We need this kid and it will take a ****-ton more than a link to the ACT website to calm my fear he isn't getting in. I've seen this movie a few times and it rarely ends well. In any event, I'm staying tuned until Pete says otherwise.

 

[The Franchise]

It might be time to quit whistling through the graveyard and admit that Griffin might have went dark on the news because the news isn't good.

 

[ace]

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 administrators of the ACT do not care how you use the scores, so they will provide you with the scores from all tests that you took. The Initial Eligibility Center will pick your "best scores" and determine if your GPA and ACT combination qualifies you as being eligible for a scholarship. The NCAA allows picking and choosing whereas some schools take the scores from one test and other schools will allow picking and choosing for their own uses of the ACT.

One would think that each person that takes the ACT would have 1 variable length record with all your test results whether you took it one time only or multiple times. Reporting of these scores should consist of one simple program to retrieve your record, format the scores for viewing online or for printing and ship them wherever you requested them to be sent. I would doubt very much if multiple test scores delayed the release of your scores.

 

[TheMatador]

Im surprised you passed considering you have to edit your posts to correct your grammar. Not sure why you started attacking a fellow canes' fan for no reason.

Odds are that Griffin did not get the necessary score of he would've told the world by now...

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.

Please correct my grammar for me. I have little time, or patience, for people who don't read, and accuse me of being the know it all, then say that what the ACT says is not really the case, but in fact almost all the scores come out early. If that is at variance from what the ACT says publicly, then provide some basis and evidence.

And please, feel free to provide a detailed critique of my grammar. I would appreciate it, since I don't think it's worth my time to spend more time to closely edit my first draft. It is unlikely that people who won't read what the ACT says and continue to whine and complain will benefit from a final edit. I'm hoping that they'll get the message from reading the thoughts as I commit them to written word. I think the points I made were clear enough in first draft form.

If the ACT webpage regarding release schedule is misleading or outright wrong, rather than continuing the whining and complaining, and namecalling, provide solid facts to refute what I have said and to show that the ACT site is indeed misleading.

 

[TheMatador]

Fact: not all scores come out at the same time.
Fact: that does not rule out a theory that vast majority do.
Fact: Matador was being a ****.

Back to our porstings about Griffin. We need this kid and it will take a ****-ton more than a link to the ACT website to calm my fear he isn't getting in. I've seen this movie a few times and it rarely ends well. In any event, I'm staying tuned until Pete says otherwise.

Right on one and two, wrong on three.Two out of three ain't bad.

I'm a wonderful guy who believes in dealing, as much as possible with facts, not emotion, speculation, unsubstantiated fear and paranoia. As I said, I'm a terrific guy, wonderful, and see a lot of idiots here who contribute nothing by their mindless emoting about something they don't know anything about.

Attack me again for my insistence we deal as much as possible on this board in facts, not unsubstantiated rumor, speculation, wild imagination, and I will tell you again how wonderful I am.

If anybody is being a ****, it was the collective mass hysteria I was on this board by hundreds of ****s over the past two or three days over wild speculation based on unconfirmed rumor and irresponsible reporting about the true state of affairs. Many years ago, I use to work with a school exercise called the "Rumor Clinic," where we showed school kids how stories get distorted from repetitive retelling and how rumors start out innocently and mushroom from unrestrained retelling, distortion and exagerration into mass hysteria. Such events have led to lynchings, pogroms, mob and vigilante justice and so forth. Not to suggest that would happen over a possible coaching change. The hysteria I saw here, however, was a case study in mass hysteria and craziness.

Proud to be a ****. I'm a wonderful ****.

 

[TheMatador]

It might be time to quit whistling through the graveyard and admit that Griffin might have went dark on the news because the news isn't good.

Why don't you just go to his twitter page and tweet him, asking him what happened?

Or just make an assumption that he failed, and then you can go jump in the closest rockpit along with all the hysterical fans who assume that the sky has just fallen. What better way to avoid the disaster that will have befallen us than to commit mass suicide.

I'll just wait for word on his score, and then if the sky has really fallen, I'll hope maybe we're bringing in Brayden Lenius and/or David Ndoku, both of whom have a lot of potential for our program, if not a complete replacement for Griffen. For me, I'll just hold out hope a little longer until the kid tells us or we gradually learn he's no longer on the radar screen and is not coming, which is how we might really find out. It might happen very quietly and without fanfare. We'll just kind of find out gradually that he won't be here.

Derrick might know already; he might not.

 

[itsacanething]

It might be time to quit whistling through the graveyard and admit that Griffin might have went dark on the news because the news isn't good.

while we do not know this yet for sure this has been my belief all along. hopefully its not the case and the news is good.

 

[rmcid]

Fact: not all scores come out at the same time.
Fact: that does not rule out a theory that vast majority do.
Fact: Matador was being a ****.

Back to our porstings about Griffin. We need this kid and it will take a ****-ton more than a link to the ACT website to calm my fear he isn't getting in. I've seen this movie a few times and it rarely ends well. In any event, I'm staying tuned until Pete says otherwise.

Right on one and two, wrong on three.Two out of three ain't bad.

I'm a wonderful guy who believes in dealing, as much as possible with facts, not emotion, speculation, unsubstantiated fear and paranoia. As I said, I'm a terrific guy, wonderful, and see a lot of idiots here who contribute nothing by their mindless emoting about something they don't know anything about.

Attack me again for my insistence we deal as much as possible on this board in facts, not unsubstantiated rumor, speculation, wild imagination, and I will tell you again how wonderful I am.

If anybody is being a ****, it was the collective mass hysteria I was on this board by hundreds of ****s over the past two or three days over wild speculation based on unconfirmed rumor and irresponsible reporting about the true state of affairs. Many years ago, I use to work with a school exercise called the "Rumor Clinic," where we showed school kids how stories get distorted from repetitive retelling and how rumors start out innocently and mushroom from unrestrained retelling, distortion and exagerration into mass hysteria. Such events have led to lynchings, pogroms, mob and vigilante justice and so forth. Not to suggest that would happen over a possible coaching change. The hysteria I saw here, however, was a case study in mass hysteria and craziness.

Proud to be a ****. I'm a wonderful ****.

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[The Franchise]

It might be time to quit whistling through the graveyard and admit that Griffin might have went dark on the news because the news isn't good.

Why don't you just go to his twitter page and tweet him, asking him what happened?

Or just make an assumption that he failed, and then you can go jump in the closest rockpit along with all the hysterical fans who assume that the sky has just fallen. What better way to avoid the disaster that will have befallen us than to commit mass suicide.

I'll just wait for word on his score, and then if the sky has really fallen, I'll hope maybe we're bringing in Brayden Lenius and/or David Ndoku, both of whom have a lot of potential for our program, if not a complete replacement for Griffen. For me, I'll just hold out hope a little longer until the kid tells us or we gradually learn he's no longer on the radar screen and is not coming, which is how we might really find out. It might happen very quietly and without fanfare. We'll just kind of find out gradually that he won't be here.

Derrick might know already; he might not.

Richard Face, after your long f.aagy soliloquy about what an emotional tool I am, you said the same thing in your last sentence that I said. He might know, and he's not talking about because it's not great news and he feels let down and embarrassed. It might be time to come to grips with it because it would be outside the normal course for him to not have his score yet despite all the drivel you posted about it being an ongoing process.