Test optional success stories

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for more TO success stories as we put my juniors list together. Likely submitting scores to some schools but not others….

Read that these are the main TO private schools (with largest % of admitted or incoming class being TO)? Have any reverted back to test required next year?

UChicago
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
Cornell
Claremont McKenna
NYU
BU
UMiami
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury
BC
Lehigh
Pomona
Wake
Tufts
Tulane

Add Wesleyan

Yes. My kid was admitted TO to Wesleyan this year. They’ve been TO for a decade so not going back.

Also add Bowdoin, another longtime TO school.

ED or RD? Uw gpa?
Public or private?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hate to overstate the obvious but….why on earth would one want their student to be at a college where their SAT is below the 25th percentile? This presumes no one in their right mind applies TO if they have median+ scores. Truly though, why try for a school where around 3/4 of admitted students are above the student’s score? That seems a recipe for disaster.

Not always below the 25%….
My kid didn’t submit a 33.
Which is many schools’ 25%.
He got into an Ivy.

Things will return back to earth in 2 years once more people report scores.

But how will they do at that ivy?
I have a kid at an ivy and another at a different T10. The self esteem issues build fast for kids who are not able to compete well with the average kids. Maybe it matters less with humanities but it matters for stem and premed. Mine are crushing it. Mine were not TO and not below median. Imposter syndrome is real and TO has magnified it. Be careful. Pre-TO a 33 was not median at ivies.

👏 👏 👏 Your kids are “crushing it” ? You sound not only ridiculous, but insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for more TO success stories as we put my juniors list together. Likely submitting scores to some schools but not others….

Read that these are the main TO private schools (with largest % of admitted or incoming class being TO)? Have any reverted back to test required next year?

UChicago
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
Cornell
Claremont McKenna
NYU
BU
UMiami
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury
BC
Lehigh
Pomona
Wake
Tufts
Tulane

Thx for this. We likely will need to apply TO and many of these schools are on DD list.

My kid has taken ACT 2 times, and had very expensive tutoring/coaching.
31 and 32. She’s trying one more time.
It’s a timing issue for her. So painful. Maybe time away will help.

Non-dmv private with high gpa.

[Anonymous]

I’m the OP. Thanks for the responses and PPs list. Any TO success at state schools? DS has average grades so we are not looking for T25 schools. Probably more in the T50-100 range.

[Anonymous]

I think they are going to start trending down...the TO success stories.

I think for the selective schools they are looking and test aware going forward. It is the bump over other similar candidates that are TO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for more TO success stories as we put my juniors list together. Likely submitting scores to some schools but not others….

Read that these are the main TO private schools (with largest % of admitted or incoming class being TO)? Have any reverted back to test required next year?

UChicago
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
Cornell
Claremont McKenna
NYU
BU
UMiami
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury
BC
Lehigh
Pomona
Wake
Tufts
Tulane

Thx for this. We likely will need to apply TO and many of these schools are on DD list.

My kid has taken ACT 2 times, and had very expensive tutoring/coaching.
31 and 32. She’s trying one more time.
It’s a timing issue for her. So painful. Maybe time away will help.

Non-dmv private with high gpa.

Frankly, I think the high ACT and 5s on APs helped get my kid into Pomona. It was tough this year. Some are TO only to capture certain 'types' of students...First Gen, rural areas, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the OP. Thanks for the responses and PPs list. Any TO success at state schools? DS has average grades so we are not looking for T25 schools. Probably more in the T50-100 range.

My DS got into every state school ranked 50-100 in EA except Purdue, where he was waitlisted. TO from JR. Hardly any EC’s but works a lot, 9 APs, A/B student, great writer, not stem. Got major aid from one. Your DS will be fine!

[Anonymous]

^^DS withdrew from Purdue because it was not a top choice, so no idea if it would have later been an acceptance.

[Anonymous]

^^^Also, he did submit all but one AP test. They were all 4s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking for more TO success stories as we put my juniors list together. Likely submitting scores to some schools but not others….

Read that these are the main TO private schools (with largest % of admitted or incoming class being TO)? Have any reverted back to test required next year?

UChicago
WashU
Vanderbilt
USC
Cornell
Claremont McKenna
NYU
BU
UMiami
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury
BC
Lehigh
Pomona
Wake
Tufts
Tulane

Add Wesleyan

Yes. My kid was admitted TO to Wesleyan this year. They’ve been TO for a decade so not going back.

Also add Bowdoin, another longtime TO school.

ED or RD? Uw gpa?
Public or private?

ED, 4.0 uw, public

[Anonymous]

Child was admitted to all of the schools test optional no early decision:

Clemson
SMU
South Carolina
Tulane
U Miami
Wake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Child was admitted to all of the schools test optional no early decision:

Clemson
SMU
South Carolina
Tulane
U Miami
Wake

Gpa? Private high school?

[Anonymous]

3.8 uw private

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think they are going to start trending down...the TO success stories.

I think for the selective schools they are looking and test aware going forward. It is the bump over other similar candidates that are TO.

TO is not going away at these schools - for some, probably ever. For others for at least a year (or more)…
Hope my research is helpful to others!

UChicago (historical)
WashU (44% of admitted students TO)
Vanderbilt (47% TO of admitted students)
USC (Cali)
Cornell (certain colleges)
Claremont McKenna (Cali)
NYU
BU
UMiami (historically TO)
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury (close to 50%)
Wesleyan (historical)
BC
Lehigh
Pomona (Cali)
Wake (historically TO)
Tufts (40%)
Tulane (50% of the admitted students for our Class of 2027 did not submit test scores.)

Historical Test-optional schools - for more than a decade, include the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, the University of Rochester, Wake Forest University and Wesleyan University. Bates, Bowdoin, Colorado, Dickinson, Emerson and Pitzer colleges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they are going to start trending down...the TO success stories.

I think for the selective schools they are looking and test aware going forward. It is the bump over other similar candidates that are TO.

TO is not going away at these schools - for some, probably ever. For others for at least a year (or more)…
Hope my research is helpful to others!

UChicago (historical)
WashU (44% of admitted students TO)
Vanderbilt (47% TO of admitted students)
USC (Cali)
Cornell (certain colleges)
Claremont McKenna (Cali)
NYU
BU
UMiami (historically TO)
Northeastern
Villanova
Middlebury (close to 50%)
Wesleyan (historical)
BC
Lehigh
Pomona (Cali)
Wake (historically TO)
Tufts (40%)
Tulane (50% of the admitted students for our Class of 2027 did not submit test scores.)

Historical Test-optional schools - for more than a decade, include the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, the University of Rochester, Wake Forest University and Wesleyan University. Bates, Bowdoin, Colorado, Dickinson, Emerson and Pitzer colleges.

false. Every day another college announces it is dropping TO