Richmond Test Optional experience

[Anonymous]

Taking the SAT or ACT is a waste of time and money. You have to get 1500+ to have it be impactful, anything less will hurt your chances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taking the SAT or ACT is a waste of time and money. You have to get 1500+ to have it be impactful, anything less will hurt your chances.

Yup. I am telling my second kid to not even bother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taking the SAT or ACT is a waste of time and money. You have to get 1500+ to have it be impactful, anything less will hurt your chances.

well, that tops it for ignorant posts of the year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

can you provide a link for that please? because those figures are too low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to our CCO, Richmond doesn't care about test scores - at all.

Your CCO is quite wrong. A quick look at SCHEV shows UOR incoming freshman this past fall had a 1510 at the 75th percentile, a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

This is because you limit your admits submitting test scores to a tiny percentage, pick the highest submitting scores to keep you USNWR numbers up, and use full pay students not submitting scores to full up the class - it’s probably a great economic strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

can you provide a link for that please? because those figures are too low.

Let me Google that for you

https://ifx.richmond.edu/pdfs/CDS2024-25.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to our CCO, Richmond doesn't care about test scores - at all.

Your CCO is quite wrong. A quick look at SCHEV shows UOR incoming freshman this past fall had a 1510 at the 75th percentile, a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

This is because you limit your admits submitting test scores to a tiny percentage, pick the highest submitting scores to keep you USNWR numbers up, and use full pay students not submitting scores to full up the class - it’s probably a great economic strategy.

Basically all lacs are doing this now, all to some degree, including SWAP. If the kids can get in a T15, they would choose it over any lac.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to our CCO, Richmond doesn't care about test scores - at all.

Your CCO is quite wrong. A quick look at SCHEV shows UOR incoming freshman this past fall had a 1510 at the 75th percentile, a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

This is because you limit your admits submitting test scores to a tiny percentage, pick the highest submitting scores to keep you USNWR numbers up, and use full pay students not submitting scores to full up the class - it’s probably a great economic strategy.

Basically all lacs are doing this now, all to some degree, including SWAP. If the kids can get in a T15, they would choose it over any lac.

Even at SWAP, about half of the class is like UCSD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to our CCO, Richmond doesn't care about test scores - at all.

Your CCO is quite wrong. A quick look at SCHEV shows UOR incoming freshman this past fall had a 1510 at the 75th percentile, a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

This is because you limit your admits submitting test scores to a tiny percentage, pick the highest submitting scores to keep you USNWR numbers up, and use full pay students not submitting scores to full up the class - it’s probably a great economic strategy.

Except US News barely uses SAT scores in its metrics, which comprise only 5% of its rankings. In contrast the vague "reputation" score is 20%.

Birds of woke feathers flock together!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to our CCO, Richmond doesn't care about test scores - at all.

Your CCO is quite wrong. A quick look at SCHEV shows UOR incoming freshman this past fall had a 1510 at the 75th percentile, a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

This is because you limit your admits submitting test scores to a tiny percentage, pick the highest submitting scores to keep you USNWR numbers up, and use full pay students not submitting scores to full up the class - it’s probably a great economic strategy.

It's not a tiny percentage - it's 36% of the class. Last year, 20% submitted the SAT and 15% the ACT. That's over 1/3. And for most of the parents reading here, it is 99% because their children are the top flying white kids in top local publics and privates - ergo you need to submit scores to be competitive or the schools think you are hiding something. . And if you need to submit, then you need a 1510 at the 75th percentile and a 3.96 GPA and a 34 ACT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking the SAT or ACT is a waste of time and money. You have to get 1500+ to have it be impactful, anything less will hurt your chances.

well, that tops it for ignorant posts of the year!

Nope.

It's true.

Why do think test optional is still around forcso many colleges? A lot of UMC suburbanites can't crack 1400.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

What a joke of a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

What a joke of a school.

Your kid must not have gotten in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

What a joke of a school.

Your kid must not have gotten in.

Great response. You sound really intelligent. My kid is not going to attend a school where 2/3 of the class can’t even score high enough to submit test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Their application page pretty clearly states the school is test optional.

For the class entering in Fall 2026, applicants may apply with or without standardized test scores.

Applying Test Optional

If you do not want to have standardized test results included in the review of your application, please indicate so when prompted on the application. The University of Richmond superscores the SAT and ACT for students who submit test scores.

Not sure what “rumblings” you’re hearing, but Richmond’s CDS for last year indicates 19% of enrolled first year students submitted SAT and 14% ACT.

What a joke of a school.

Your kid must not have gotten in.

Great response. You sound really intelligent. My kid is not going to attend a school where 2/3 of the class can’t even score high enough to submit test scores.

You do realize that Test Optional that started for many schools after covid means those scoring 1450 don't even submit SAT tests? What was Harvard's 25% before they went test optional back in 2020? It was "only" 1460.