Test optional success stories

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Anonymous wrote:Curious how kids applying test optional fared so far this year. DS is a junior coming from a W school in MCPS. Likely not applying to top tier schools. Wondering how kids looking at T50-100+ schools did this year without submitting tests, particularly kids coming from top privates and W schools where my sense is that most kids submit. Not my first kid so I know there’s no crystal ball and I know every school is different, but first kid did submit scores so I’m just trying to get a sense of how things are playing out this year. Thanks for any insights!

Schools in this range include (not counting California schools):
NYU
BC
Tufts
BU
Lehigh
Wake
Case
Northeastern
Brandeis
Santa Clara
GW
Syracuse
U-Miami
Villanova
Tulane
Pepperdine
Fordham
SMU
LMU
TCU
U-SD
American

And almost everyone we know who applied TO in this range (T35-100) got into several of these private colleges (some w/merit). Some of them require more strategy than others depending on who else is applying from your school (BC/Tufts/Wake/Tulane)….but overall these private schools are all mostly really TO.

Too many people here think we are only talking about the top 10 or 15 schools…
Think bigger.

OP here. Thank for this list. DC is planning to apply to several of these schools exactly for this reason. PP, did most of the TO kids you know who got accepted to these have super strong grades and rigor?

No and no.
Good but not great students at a hard well known private.

Note: wake/tufts are very hard in RD.

I am a Wake parent and can confirm, rumor is that RD acceptance rate below 10 percent. Overall rate is 22 percent so ED is obviously a huge advantage. Not trying to discourage RD applications, because one never knows what the Admission Committee likes (Wake does seem to love student government leadership) but it is good info to know when putting schools in categories. Wake might be a target or even a likely for ED but a reach for RD.