Where did your 2026 kid get in EA Test Optional?

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at naviance reports for my school, lots of kids got into colleges EA with SAT scores below 1000. Seeing schools like Catholic University, George Mason, St Marys of Maryland, Georgetown, Indiana, Michigan St, Rutgers, Oregon St

You mean they got into GMU test optional with a score below 1000, right? Because GMU is a 1360 at the 75th percentile; a 1260 at the median and the bottom 25th had a 1180, so getting in with below 1000 is unlikely. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile

Someone accepted into Geogetown (which doesn't do test optional) with an SAT score below 1000 must be a basketball player, child of a billionaire, or child of a head of state.

That student actually had no SAT on file. So they had nothing to submit

Georgetown is test required.

I am looking at my school level admin naviance reports and this student has a Highest SAT score of zero and was accepted to Georgetown University EA. Also only took 15 Honors/AP classes in high school

[Anonymous]

In at U-Wisconsin-Madison OOS

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at naviance reports for my school, lots of kids got into colleges EA with SAT scores below 1000. Seeing schools like Catholic University, George Mason, St Marys of Maryland, Georgetown, Indiana, Michigan St, Rutgers, Oregon St

You mean they got into GMU test optional with a score below 1000, right? Because GMU is a 1360 at the 75th percentile; a 1260 at the median and the bottom 25th had a 1180, so getting in with below 1000 is unlikely. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile

Someone accepted into Geogetown (which doesn't do test optional) with an SAT score below 1000 must be a basketball player, child of a billionaire, or child of a head of state.

That student actually had no SAT on file. So they had nothing to submit

Georgetown is test required.

I am looking at my school level admin naviance reports and this student has a Highest SAT score of zero and was accepted to Georgetown University EA. Also only took 15 Honors/AP classes in high school

So? Georgetown is test required. Occam’s razor says your Naviance data is incomplete.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at naviance reports for my school, lots of kids got into colleges EA with SAT scores below 1000. Seeing schools like Catholic University, George Mason, St Marys of Maryland, Georgetown, Indiana, Michigan St, Rutgers, Oregon St

What is “lots” of kids?
Because I am definitely not seeing “lots”. I am seeing a small number of schools in our scattergrams that had a max of 1 kid accepted with a low SAT. I assume they play football.

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My friend’s daughter got in TO to Tulane ED. I think she took the SAT like 5 times and couldn’t get over 1350-60.

Friend’s annoyed they wasted so much time and money on test prep and SAT fees.

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Anonymous wrote:I had assumed TO is truly test optional only for underprivileged students?

My white, privileged DS got into numerous schools TO last year, including one in the Top 30 and several in the Top 50.

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Anonymous wrote:I had assumed TO is truly test optional only for underprivileged students?

My white, privileged DS got into numerous schools TO last year, including one in the Top 30 and several in the Top 50.

Which schools? What gpa, from what county or school type? What major?

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Anonymous wrote:My friend’s daughter got in TO to Tulane ED. I think she took the SAT like 5 times and couldn’t get over 1350-60.

Friend’s annoyed they wasted so much time and money on test prep and SAT fees.

She didn’t have to do it. She chose to!

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I’d love to know whether much, if any, merit aid was offered to TO kids at the mentioned schools. (Particularly interested in American, Fordham, Pitt, and Loyola MD.)

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UVA EA

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at naviance reports for my school, lots of kids got into colleges EA with SAT scores below 1000. Seeing schools like Catholic University, George Mason, St Marys of Maryland, Georgetown, Indiana, Michigan St, Rutgers, Oregon St

What is “lots” of kids?
Because I am definitely not seeing “lots”. I am seeing a small number of schools in our scattergrams that had a max of 1 kid accepted with a low SAT. I assume they play football.

DP. All you have to do is look at the schools' data (SCHEV if in VA) to see how many kids go TO. The PP is right - lots of them do.

[Anonymous]

All of the mid-Atlantic Catholic schools- Loyola MD, Manhattan, Seton Hall, Duquesne, La Salle, St Joe's, Scranton

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Anonymous wrote:I’d love to know whether much, if any, merit aid was offered to TO kids at the mentioned schools. (Particularly interested in American, Fordham, Pitt, and Loyola MD.)

I just posted and my DS got $25k in merit from Loyola.

[Anonymous]

UVM
Stonybrook
UVA

Biochemistry Major
Private School, 3.8 GPA
2 AP classes, mostly honours
Normal ECs

No hook.

[Anonymous]

UVM - Trustee scholarship
Stonybrook - 13k merit aid a year
UVA

Biochemistry Major
Private School, 3.8 GPA
2 AP classes, mostly honours
Normal ECs

No hook.
TO because he doesnt test well and his scores don’t reflect his ability