Test optional schools
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Anonymous
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Which selective schools take the most test optional students?
InT50 or so? Humanities major (for kid whose math score is tanking submission)… Anyone have resources? |
Anonymous
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From crimson:
Top 100 Colleges That Don’t Require The SAT/ACT According to FairTest’s website, a staggering 2,022 colleges in the US offer test-optional or test-free policies! This means you have more options than ever to find amazing schools that don't rely solely on a single test score. Below, we present our top 100 picks for this admission cycle. Important Note:* Testing policies change frequently. Always double-check the most up-to-date information on each college's official website before applying.* Amherst College Art Center College of Design Babson College Bard College Bates College Bennington College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brigham Young University California Institute of Technology California State University Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Claremont McKenna College Clemson University Colby College Colgate University Colorado College Colorado School of Mines Columbia University Cornell University Davidson College Duke University Emory University Grinnell College Hamilton College Hampshire College Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lehigh University Macalester College Middlebury College Michigan State University New York University North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Oberlin College Ohio State University Pepperdine University Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rice University Rochester Institue of Technology Rhode Island School of Design Rutgers University Santa Clara University Scripps College Skidmore College Smith College Stanford University State University of New York (SUNY) Swarthmore College Texas A&M University The College of Wooster The Cooper Union Trinity University Tulane University Tufts University University of California University of Chicago University of Connecticut University of Illinois University of Maine University of Maryland University of Massachusetts University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota University of North Carolina University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Richmond University of Southern California University of Texas University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin Vanderbilt University Vassar College Villanova University Virginia Tech Wake Forest University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Williams College William & Mary Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
Anonymous
| BU and Northeastern take the most from our school. Also I know two students who were accepted to Vanderbilt TO last year. |
Anonymous
| That is a ton of test optional schools... |
Anonymous
| Emory, Tufts take a ton. NYU, BU, NEU |
Anonymous
Is the school private, public or magnet? |
Anonymous
| Bowdoin had been test optional for 50 years. Wesleyan has been test optional since 2014. Schools that were TO pre-covid are good bets. |
Anonymous
| Wake Forest. Test optional for over a decade. Rolling admission like Pitt, but for ED. |
Anonymous
| WPI no test at all for over a decade. |
Anonymous
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It would be more useful to see how many of the top 100 schools are TO.
That list will keep getting shorter and eventually disappear. There will always be test optional schools. Any school with an average sat score below 1100 is better off just going by GPA. |
Anonymous
LOL, the vast majority are. The reason a subset of the highest profile/most selective schools are going back to test required is because they get huge volumes of applications and single-digit acceptance rates, and need test scores to cull. I would bet money that in five years the majority of top 100 schools will still be test optional. |
Anonymous
Yes. Because with the population drop-off on the horizon- lower ranked schools are going to be fighting to attract students as enrollment drops off for so many. |
Anonymous
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Is there a version of this list if T50/100 schools that take the most # of test optional students?
I saw it here before but can’t find it with search. |
Anonymous
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Here’s the list I copied from here a while ago:
list of of test optional private schools where more than 50% of the admitted class last year was test optional (private schools with greatest # of admitted TO students): UChicago Cornell (only select colleges) Vanderbilt USC WashU NYU BC Tufts BU Lehigh UMiami Northeastern Villanova Wake Tulane SLACs: Bowdoin Pomona CMC Wesleyan Middlebury |
Anonymous
Wake ‘s rolling ED1 admission works different from Pitt. They release decisions once a month, through the fall, and students get their admissions decisions whichever date falls a month after their application is complete. There is no “rolling notification” for ED2, EA (limited to first gen applicants) or RD. |