Northwestern - how long is it likely to stay test optional?
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Anonymous
| Seems like peer schools have moved away from test optional. Anyone with intel on why Northwestern is holding out? |
Anonymous
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Athletics - Div 1.
Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt |
Anonymous
| Who here would you expect to “have intel?” You think some admissions officer from NU is lurking on DCUM? |
Anonymous
+1. Hi I’m an admissions officer and I can tell you OP exclusively for DCUM only that Northwestern will remain test optional for 292.5 days |
Anonymous
then why is stanford moving away? |
Anonymous
Bc it doesn’t care about winning as much? Don’t know. |
Anonymous
Yep. Doesn’t look good as supposedly “elite” schools. The number of test optional non-athletes at Vanderbilt is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
| Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO. |
Anonymous
How many? |
Anonymous
Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants. |
Anonymous
They are test optional. You can guess about Michigan’s preferences, but their official policy is TO for all. |
Anonymous
Look at your school’s scoir from the last 2 years and it is pretty clear they want scores—high ones. |
Anonymous
TO is for the football player that has a 20 ACT. |
Anonymous
And yet…the policy is test optional. Again, you can do this analysis and tea-leaf-reading for every school. But the policy is the policy.) (Also, I know TO candidates admitted OOS in the last couple of years. So.) |
Anonymous
| For most of us, we should just treat it as test required. |