From Fmylife.com
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Not really funny. Believe it or not?

I don't buy it.

How hard is it to cancel?? I have never looked into it.

I mean... you have to bubble two bubbles in and sign. Or contact them.

I've never heard of it just happening...

BS. they wouldn't say, "would not be reinstated for any reason."

Real or not, just thinking about that made my blood pressure shoot up.

I HOPE it's fake.

I call bullshit. This isn't a rinky dink operation. It's a professional organization that deals with some powerful institutions. It's also, from what I can tell, just as technologically advanced as, oh, every other organization on the planet. If this person really received such a message, he'd simply ask them to look at his answer sheet or demand proof of the letter he's supposed to send. I doubt LSAC has any reason to intentionally fuck with some random person.

That's exactly what they say:

It seems very possible to do. I mean what steps do they do to verify it is the person? Does it just have to come from a certain e-mail or what? "Off to LSAC to see"

I wouldn't be so positive about LSAC. Some enormous professional organizations with large operating budgets make silly mistakes like this. The real test of an organization is how easy it is to get them to fix such mistakes.

I could see a huge number of people being able to have cancelled my score if they wanted to commit forgery and make me really really mad.

You have to physically fax them the cancellation form...unless you physically bubbled in the two cancel bubbles on your answer sheet.

If it's a mistake, which is entirely understandable if that's the case, then it should be easy to fix. As I said, this person simply has to demand to see the answer sheet or the form he was supposed to send in. It's that easy. And considering LSAC doesn't have much reason to deny some random person from having a score, I doubt they'd fight him on this.

So again, I call bullshit.

LSAC seems pretty sure score cannot be reinstated for any reason.

I hope it is real.

LSAC can pretty easy get away with this as well (if they really wanted to avoid some sort of scandal and it was already too late to recover the score)... bubble in two ovals into his/her scantron and have a proof. Oh well, bad situation

But again, why would they want to do this? You are assuming there's some sort of plot against this person. Why would there be?

Dude. To underscore this point: ETS mis-scanned a bunch of tests back in October '06 (or maybe '07, I forget) and gave a thousands of students the wrong SAT scores, then tried to cover it up for months. AAMC managed to give med school applicants the wrong information about the tools that would be available on the first computer-based MCAT back in January '07 and how the tools would function, and while they were at it, gave students the wrong set of questions for a given passage (i.e. the questions on the right were not for the passage on the left but for a completely different, inaccessible passage). LSAC is known as a very good test-making company because they don't screw up very much, but everybody screws up sometimes.

So is it true? Heck if I know. But those of you who are saying that it's impossible, well, I don't think it's impossible.

really? wow. that's ridiculous

The point isn't that LSAC usually does not screw up. It's that there's no reason to believe the situation is hopeless because there's some sort of underlying motive to denying this student a score. As I and others have said, this person simply has to demand to see the answer sheet or the statement he's supposed to send. It's possible that they don't have the answer sheet, but not likely. And if you believe, as I do, that LSAC wants this person to see the score, you can imagine that they will cooperate with him and try to figure this out.

There's always an off chance that something very unusual happened, but I don't see why LSAC wouldn't do what it can to figure everything out.

The actual scanning of the answer sheets probably doesn't take that long. It's the other bullshit that takes up most of the time, I imagine. Whether all of it is necessary in order to ensure fair testing conditions is really worth it is another question, but it doesn't mean LSAC is technologically weak.

Ahhh FML.

The weeks-long delay between the test and score release is not due to a technological inability to scan bubble sheets. You have to consider that it takes 3 days to deliver all the score sheets back, 1 day to scan them and process their database, and 3 weeks to sit back and bask in schadenfreude as our anxiety peaks.

Or to check up on things and what not, riiight.

My guess: Person freaked out over test, got drunk to forget it, faxed form while drunk, forgot it all.

What makes you think we assume there was a motive behind it? Just a silly mistake that LSAC would not want to acknowledge, or it would be too late to reinstate the score or something and they would realize that they are busted because who knows what the paarnoid poor exhausted law-school-student-to-be might do, you know.

No conspiracy, just a mistake that might result in conspiracy to save one's own ass.

Now I'm going to have nightmares of my score being "accidentally" canceled, along with the already recurring ones of lsat scores ranging in the 120~140s....