I hate test optional!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That’s not that great a score! Also, what her paid tutor thinks she will get at a future date doesn’t count for anything. (What’s more, even if she does get it lots of kids can get that type of score through their own hard work, with no tutor.) for your daughter’s sake please tone it down and help her come up with a list that includes safeties where she can be happy.

It's the 98th percentile, numbnuts. The issue is that instead of having to compete with the 2% of applicants who scored at her level or higher, thanks to test optional she'll be fighting for spots with thousands more kids, many of whom would've been laughed out of the admissions office had they been required to take the test and submit it.

How are you going to survive the next year, you sound like you’re about to slit your wrists and your kid is only a junior!

Ha pardon my fat finger iPhone typing lol

[Anonymous]

LOVE test optional! My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. They can do great in school with time and support (tutoring where needed) but suck at standardized tests (even with additional time). Test optional give a better picture of the type of student DC is rather than a grade on an anxiety ridden exam that has no relationship to DC’s actual abilities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:wow. well my kid who got a 1380 without benefit of a tutor, just a regular middle class kid who had to prep solely on Khan Academy must be a complete idiot to you, certainly "less talented and less capable". Well I wager his GPA is higher than your kid and he can write a better essay than yours too... but ok sure, he's "less than" because his family is not rich enough to spend thousands on test prep and couldn't retake it because of cancellations anyway.

There are words for people like you... and oh I wish I could share some of them here but I'm trying to be polite.

GPA is meaningless when compared across different schools, let alone different districts or states. But my daughter is ranked in the top 3% of her class at a competitive public in a highly educated, UMC district. As for the essay part, if your son inherited his writing skills from you, I doubt it.

hahahahah ok I am guessing this has to be Friday afternoon troll because you are just a miserable human being. My son is in the top 1.4% of his class in a "competitive public in a highly educated, UMC district", so dang your kid must be an idiot LOL how dare she take a spot from some other more deserving human. I wish you nothing but (lack of) success in your college search!

Sorry your kid got turned down for prom by someone like my daughter.

OP, if that’s you making these horrible remarks - you are even less likable than your OP indicated.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:35 ACT did not appear to help my kid
Currently on six waitlists
Only acceptances are at 2 safeties
Kid will be fine and is well prepared for college.

Wonder how many David Hoggs got into those schools where your kid is waitlisted.

And the boy a few years ago who got into Stanford by repeating “Black Lives Matter” over and over as his “essay.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOVE test optional! My kid has dyslexia and ADHD. They can do great in school with time and support (tutoring where needed) but suck at standardized tests (even with additional time). Test optional give a better picture of the type of student DC is rather than a grade on an anxiety ridden exam that has no relationship to DC’s actual abilities.

+1
My daughter has never been a good standardized test taker - too much anxiety - but she is a wonderful student. I hope adcoms take the time to see all she has accomplished in AND out of school.

[Anonymous]

https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/25/no-the-sat-doesnt-just-measure-income/

^ May interest some in this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daughter who's a junior pulled a 1490 on her first SAT attempt in March, cold, I mean zero preparation. Now she has a tutor and is signed up to take it again in June. Her tutor told me that based on what she's observed in their sessions so far she expects her to get a 1550+ on the second try.

I want to be excited for her, but after reading this board along with so many newspaper articles on how test optional is changing the admission landscape, I can't help but think she came along a couple years too late to be a high-achiever but an otherwise normal kid, by which I mean she's ranked near the top of her class, plays sports, is involved in clubs, but isn't a "URM" or a "first-generation student" and has no interest in being some nationally known social justice activist or social media influencer.

She's just a really smart kid who'll likely become a doctor, pharmacist, PT, or something in that mold, and her test scores were going to be what set her apart from all the other kids who've been handed high grades during Zoom school and can make up a bunch of extracurriculars and "leadership roles" for their applications.

I worry that some kid like that who probably couldn't pull a 1300-1400 with a year of prep will end up taking a spot that should have gone to my daughter. That might sound bad, but what parent likes seeing their kid lose out on opportunities to someone who they know is less talented and less capable?

I hate test optional!

Test optional can SMD!

It's more like Test optional will BYD, not SYD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/25/no-the-sat-doesnt-just-measure-income/

^ May interest some in this thread

Interesting. Seems to show pretty conclusively that SAT measures more than just income.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:35 ACT did not appear to help my kid
Currently on six waitlists
Only acceptances are at 2 safeties
Kid will be fine and is well prepared for college.

Wonder how many David Hoggs got into those schools where your kid is waitlisted.

And the boy a few years ago who got into Stanford by repeating “Black Lives Matter” over and over as his “essay.”

Considering you know nothing about the rest of his application I’m not sure how you can say this is why he was accepted. In fact, maybe he was accepted at Stanford in spite of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, op. That stinks.

But - test optional provides more opportunities to families who cannot afford tutors.

Check your entitlement at the door. The field is being leveled.

Honestly, with lower scoring kids going to Ivies and higher ones headed to state schools, we might find the next Bill Gates out of UVA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, op. That stinks.

But - test optional provides more opportunities to families who cannot afford tutors.

Check your entitlement at the door. The field is being leveled.

Honestly, with lower scoring kids going to Ivies and higher ones headed to state schools, we might find the next Bill Gates out of UVA.

UVA sux.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/25/no-the-sat-doesnt-just-measure-income/

^ May interest some in this thread

Interesting. Seems to show pretty conclusively that SAT measures more than just income.

And that unless your kid is an Asian male, you have no business being upset that someone from a different race is "taking" your kid's spot because based on just SAT scores, your kid shouldn't get a spot anyway, the spot is being taken from an Asian male, not your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:35 ACT did not appear to help my kid
Currently on six waitlists
Only acceptances are at 2 safeties
Kid will be fine and is well prepared for college.

Wonder how many David Hoggs got into those schools where your kid is waitlisted.

And the boy a few years ago who got into Stanford by repeating “Black Lives Matter” over and over as his “essay.”

That was on one of several required short essays. The kid was also admitted to Yale and attended Yale.

[Anonymous]

35 ACT helped my DS get into schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/25/no-the-sat-doesnt-just-measure-income/

^ May interest some in this thread

Interesting. Seems to show pretty conclusively that SAT measures more than just income.

And that [b]unless your kid is an Asian male, you have no business being upset that someone from a different race is "taking" your kid's spot because based on just SAT scores, your kid shouldn't get a spot anyway, the spot is being taken from an Asian male, not your kid.[/b]

That link literally does not mention sex or gender. And if it did, it would point out that it's generally harder for *women* to get into most colleges (excluding places like Cal Tech or military academies that are male-dominated). Stop it with your misogyny.

-an Asian woman who didn't have it easy in college admissions either