If your child did not submit SAT scores, where did they get in?

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted: UMD, Fordham, Pitt, Rutgers, Pace
Waitlisted: NYU
Declined: Boston U, Northwestern

This list is very similar to my current senior’s list. Out of curiosity, what was your student’s GPA, what was the test score that they chose not to submit (or were they truly unable to test in the pandemic?), and what kinds of ECs did they have? Thanks.

UW GPA was 3.7
Never took SATs (due to pandemic)
Some ECs included dance, founder of a club, and worked at local mom & pop shop
No hooks and public school (not a W one)

PP here— thank you! I hope your kid is thriving wherever they ended up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted: UMD, Fordham, Pitt, Rutgers, Pace
Waitlisted: NYU
Declined: Boston U, Northwestern

This list is very similar to my current senior’s list. Out of curiosity, what was your student’s GPA, what was the test score that they chose not to submit (or were they truly unable to test in the pandemic?), and what kinds of ECs did they have? Thanks.

UW GPA was 3.7
Never took SATs (due to pandemic)
Some ECs included dance, founder of a club, and worked at local mom & pop shop
No hooks and public school (not a W one)

PP here— thank you! I hope your kid is thriving wherever they ended up!

Thank you! Ended up at Fordham (LC campus) and is absolutely loving it. Good luck to your senior!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If in a relatively affluent or upper middle class demographic it is a red flag if you do not submit test scores. We have a college consultant and he said this was an issue last year with admissions

Our college consultant said the same. Test optional is really meant to remove unfair barriers for students who would otherwise be a strong match for a school. Unless it's obvious from the rest of the application what that barrier would be (lower SES, first generation college student, English as a second language, recent personal or family illness or hardship), it's just a red flag that the applicant had every opportunity to do well on the test and did not.

This topic came up because our private school kid was hinting around that maybe he should just apply to test optional places so he didn't have to prep for the SAT. The counselor shut down that idea quickly.

Interesting. I have a private school kid with anxiety, ADHD and dyslexia, who does not test well. Her counselor told us to hold off on standardized tests until the end of this (junior) year and consider test optional schools only. There were no PSAT scores last year so we are actually kind of unsure of how she will do. We will have a better idea after this year’s PSAT. She has good grades. Testing is just rough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted: UMD, Fordham, Pitt, Rutgers, Pace
Waitlisted: NYU
Declined: Boston U, Northwestern

This list is very similar to my current senior’s list. Out of curiosity, what was your student’s GPA, what was the test score that they chose not to submit (or were they truly unable to test in the pandemic?), and what kinds of ECs did they have? Thanks.

UW GPA was 3.7
Never took SATs (due to pandemic)
Some ECs included dance, founder of a club, and worked at local mom & pop shop
No hooks and public school (not a W one)

PP here— thank you! I hope your kid is thriving wherever they ended up!

Thank you! Ended up at Fordham (LC campus) and is absolutely loving it. Good luck to your senior!

PP again-- that's actually my student's top choice right now! Maybe they'll end up there together.

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I'm wondering if anyone applied to VA schools test-optional and was accepted - Tech, W&M, JMU, UVA, etc.

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White boy without SAT scores accepted to U of Rochester, Lehigh, and university of Wisconsin, madision and waitlisted at university of Michigan, Northeastern and Boston University. No rejections.

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I'd be cautious thinking results going test optional will be as favorable this year or more so, next. For last year's kids, many truly didn't have an option to take the test so it was less likely to be held against them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White boy without SAT scores accepted to U of Rochester, Lehigh, and university of Wisconsin, madision and waitlisted at university of Michigan, Northeastern and Boston University. No rejections.

lol waitlist is for all practical purposes rejection

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:White boy without SAT scores accepted to U of Rochester, Lehigh, and university of Wisconsin, madision and waitlisted at university of Michigan, Northeastern and Boston University. No rejections.

lol waitlist is for all practical purposes rejection

Not necessarily. It varies widely from school to school and year to year. Look at the stats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:White boy without SAT scores accepted to U of Rochester, Lehigh, and university of Wisconsin, madision and waitlisted at university of Michigan, Northeastern and Boston University. No rejections.

lol waitlist is for all practical purposes rejection

Not necessarily. It varies widely from school to school and year to year. Look at the stats.

BU took almost 700 kids off the waitlist per last cds.

[Anonymous]

Full pay is even more important in a scenario with no SAT scores

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Anonymous wrote:Full pay is even more important in a scenario with no SAT scores

Perhaps at schools that are not need blind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering if anyone applied to VA schools test-optional and was accepted - Tech, W&M, JMU, UVA, etc.

I posted on p2


Waitlisted at VaTech, admitted W&M, rejected at UVA.

GPA around 4.4, varsity girls Basketball, lots of AP and dual enrollment classes.

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Boston University, UMD, Rochester, Elon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Instead of conjecture, it would be really helpful if people only posted where their kid got in without submitting SAT scores.

+1