Should DC submit 1500 score to Duke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:17 year old senior in HS reading all of these crazy parent posts. I submitted a 1500 non super-scored test to Duke. I'm proud of scoring that. If they don't accept me, then it is their loss. I'm not hiding my scores as I think the people in admissions obviously know your score is lower if you don't submit it.

Life will go on if I get accepted or not. Same with your kids as well.

You rock, hs senior! Love your positive attitude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HI, this is OP. DC did not submit scores. Got in to Duke. Maybe DC would have gotten in if scores were submitted. Still think the system is crazy when kids feel 1500 is too low to submit. Maybe with more schools requiring test scores, this will change.

Congrats to your kid and thanks for the update!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HI, this is OP. DC did not submit scores. Got in to Duke. Maybe DC would have gotten in if scores were submitted. Still think the system is crazy when kids feel 1500 is too low to submit. Maybe with more schools requiring test scores, this will change.

Congratulations! Agree on the crazy system.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations !

By not submitting standardized test scores, Duke placed more weight on the applicant's grades,rigor of courses taken,class rank (if any),and teacher recommendations--all of which must have been superb.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The point is that if you are applying as an unhooked academic kid, you really do need to submit test scores at about 1540 or so.

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This. Same at UVA. Last years incoming class had a 1510 at the 75th percentile (25 percent had higher). So if unhooked, and especially if from nova and competing against top kids from your high school, you want to try to hit well above a 1510.

But that 1510 is deceiving. A ton of UVA’s incoming class went TO. I am too lazy to look it up, but I bet someone else knows the exact percentage.

According to UVa’s last cds, 71 percent of emrolled freshman submitted either SAT or ACT.

You can't add them together. Some may have submitted both. For instance, at Georgia Tech, which still requires standardized tests, you get 112% if you add SAT + ACT. Slightly less than half at UVA submitted SAT scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC scored 1500 on SAT. I think DC should submit to Duke but college counselor said score is below 1550 so DC should not admit. This seems crazy to me. Any thoughts?

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