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Student Changes ETS Test PolicyNovember, 2002
THE SAT AND GMAT TEST scores of disabled students who are granted extra time to take the exams no longer will be “flagged,” or pointed out, to colleges and others looking at results, thanks to the efforts of Mark Breimhorst, a second-year GSB student. Breimhorst, who was born without hands, had requested extra time to take the Educational Testing Service’s business school admission test, the GMAT, according to press reports. His test results were then flagged with the words “nonstandard administration,” which, he believed, violated antidiscrimination laws. He filed a lawsuit and in a 2000 settlement, ETS agreed to no longer flag such test results. This summer the College Board, which develops the SAT and several other tests that are administered through ETS, also agreed to stop the flagging procedure as of Oct. 1. The ruling has generated debate over who qualifies as a disabled test taker, but Breimhorst told the Associated Press it will “change the lives of people with disabilities. They don’t have to have this scarlet letter attached to their transcript.” Breimhorst, who has an undergraduate degree and a master’s in education from Stanford, runs a venture philanthropy organization that supports several nonprofits. |
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