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If you are based in the US, try to make a claim with your credit card or, if more adventurous, small claims court to sue. It seems pretty easy to win. Also, send a letter to your attorneys general office to explain what happened.

    > got 99th percentile scores on everything

This part was unnecessary to include. Nothing but humblebragging there.

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I disagree. It shows that the original test taker was less likely to be cheating than a lower scoring person and the system was at more likely to be at fault.

Not really, since if you don’t trust their account of the story in the first place (that they didn’t cheat), why would you trust that part? It adds nothing. You should immunize yourself to devices like this having any impact for the same reason you should immunize yourself to cheap devices like “I normally hate X but” and “as an X, I think that” in other online comments.

I don't understand the '99th percentile' aside as a way to convince HN readers that the commenter wasn't cheating.

Rather, I take it as an expression of personal pride (in the positive sense) that there was such incontrovertible evidence that the commenter had no need to cheat in the first place, told with the satisfying (but probably unrealised) hope that the people who unjustifiably accused the commenter of cheating were later aware of the top marks he or she achieved after taking the exam in person.

More humble but still making the point: "I scored well on the test"

I did seriously consider charging back, but considering it would probably get me banned from taking further tests and a couple grad schools I was applying to wanted the scores, I didn't pursue it.

I mentioned it in a few other replies, but my intent was just to show that I didnt need to cheat. I really dont think GRE scores are worth bragging about and I wish I could go back and edit my comment seeing as it clearly didn't come across as intended.

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