Only 25% of Admitted Students Submitted Test Scores

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Anonymous wrote:For test scores, last year was not normal.

Why not?

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Submit, for sure

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

That number seems about normal to me.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

Northeastern and UW-Seattle are two I know of. I would assume Northeastern because it’s taking kids without scores in ED, and UW because its applicant pool has so much overlap with the applicant pool for California state schools (which are test blind).

Yup. And UW’s “test optional” is much closer to “test blind” than most schools: https://admit.washington.edu/apply/freshman/how-to-apply/test-scores/. All of the west coast public schools are like this—test optional at minimum.

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Boy, I really feel for the professors in hard classes who teach the A students who got a 1600 on the sat alongside the A students who got a 1100 or 1200 (or would have if they took it). It must be so frustrating for everyone involved.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, I really feel for the professors in hard classes who teach the A students who got a 1600 on the sat alongside the A students who got a 1100 or 1200 (or would have if they took it). It must be so frustrating for everyone involved.

If the class is hard because it’s quantitative, all math departments give their own placement tests now, so the lower-scoring kids aren’t even allowed to register for the harder classes. (And if the class is hard but not quantitative, it’s probably a lot of work, and diligence and effort aren’t particularly correlated with SAT score.)

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

Northeastern and UW-Seattle are two I know of. I would assume Northeastern because it’s taking kids without scores in ED, and UW because its applicant pool has so much overlap with the applicant pool for California state schools (which are test blind).

That’s interesting, DC was rejected by Northeastern with 1570 and 4.0uw

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

Northeastern and UW-Seattle are two I know of. I would assume Northeastern because it’s taking kids without scores in ED, and UW because its applicant pool has so much overlap with the applicant pool for California state schools (which are test blind).

That’s interesting, DC was rejected by Northeastern with 1570 and 4.0uw

That sounds like Northeastern made a mistake. Or maybe the reviewer just had it out from kids from DC area. Very off.

I'm betting your kid got in somewhere great! Hope so as my kid has scores very similar and I'd be really annoyed if she ends up getting shut out of competitive schools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

Northeastern and UW-Seattle are two I know of. I would assume Northeastern because it’s taking kids without scores in ED, and UW because its applicant pool has so much overlap with the applicant pool for California state schools (which are test blind).

That’s interesting, DC was rejected by Northeastern with 1570 and 4.0uw

Your kid was too qualified for NE.

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Northeastern would rather have a lower admit rate. The problem with high-scoring kids is that they tend to be wanted other places too, so you need to admit more of them to fill your freshman class. And that makes your admission rate go up above 10%.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of schools with so few submit scores?

Northeastern and UW-Seattle are two I know of. I would assume Northeastern because it’s taking kids without scores in ED, and UW because its applicant pool has so much overlap with the applicant pool for California state schools (which are test blind).

That’s interesting, DC was rejected by Northeastern with 1570 and 4.0uw

Your kid was too qualified for NE.

It's hilarious and sad that people keep spreading lies about the type of student that applies to NEU. I don't know a single smart student among our kids' friends and associates (sports and clubs) who have that school even as a safety. These are dozens and dozens of kids who are applying to T10/T25 schools and NEU hasn't come up once.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, I really feel for the professors in hard classes who teach the A students who got a 1600 on the sat alongside the A students who got a 1100 or 1200 (or would have if they took it). It must be so frustrating for everyone involved.

It's not much different than the high school teachers who have had to deal with this situation for longer.

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Anonymous wrote:100% yes. even if it's 25% on the dot

Really? I wouldn't submit if it's 25% on the dot. I would if closer to 50 percentile.

This. If your score helps the school by raising its average, then submit.

But why submit a score that puts you in the bottom fourth? That's just dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, I really feel for the professors in hard classes who teach the A students who got a 1600 on the sat alongside the A students who got a 1100 or 1200 (or would have if they took it). It must be so frustrating for everyone involved.

What are you talking about? Pre COVID only the highest test scores or smartest kids took the hard classes?

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, I really feel for the professors in hard classes who teach the A students who got a 1600 on the sat alongside the A students who got a 1100 or 1200 (or would have if they took it). It must be so frustrating for everyone involved.

What are you talking about? Pre COVID only the highest test scores or smartest kids took the hard classes?

DP but, yes. Pre-COVID, at some schools at least 75% of students had very high test scores, and the wide receivers and heiresses who got in with lower scores were quietly encouraged to major in studio art. Of course larger schools, especially state schools, have always enrolled a wider range of students. In fact this used to be a reason that smart kids chose private schools, with their more uniformly high-scoring student body, over their state flagships.