Forecast - College admissions for Class of 2022?

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Anonymous wrote:Test optional needs to stop. Test sites are widely available for the class of 2022 and will continue through the year.

I recently attended a virtual college session hosted by our public school and many college recruiters participated. They also said they think that test optional is here to stay. It is what it is.

That is not appropriate because a.) college is full of tests, and the kid has to be able to test, like the other students have to be able to test and b.) test optional is not leveling any playing ground, because colleges want to know that your kid can do well there, and tests are just one indicator c.) ultimately, it is better for the class if the tests continue, as they always have d.) the more factors to make your kid stand out, the better.

Actually, much (most?) of college is writing papers and short word answers and doing problem sets that require you to show your work, not taking multiple choice tests.

Exactly. I’d rather kids have to write a five-page essay that was graded by a teacher as their entrance exam. College students don’t take standardized tests. It’s bizarre that they have to take one to be admitted to college. The entrance standards should replicate the kind of work they’ll actually be expected to do.

So that you can BS through the process?

You think writing beautifully is “BS”? Ok. I think it shows far more about what a kid is capable of than a score on a standardized test, which in all likelihood was prepped for.

Admissions have no idea who wrote the application essays either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Test optional needs to stop. Test sites are widely available for the class of 2022 and will continue through the year.

Yes. Tests are more available than before but test centers are still cancelling. I just got an email today that our test center in June is cancelled. So now I’m scrambling looking for another place. And this is here in DMV.

Ugh, which site cancelled?

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Anonymous wrote:I think there are a lot of parents of high scoring kids on here who cannot comprehend that the score is not the be all end all. I get it. You feel threatened. My own kid had a difference between score and grade point (score much higher than grade point). I would feel threatened, too, but I do think there truly are kids who are bright and would do well in college, despite not having a 1500+. The evidence is there. Schools have been doing test optional for many years. I get it that it would be great to deny and pretend that the test score is supreme. It just isn’t with all of the prepping that goes on. If you want an example, look at FCPS AAP, which has become completely watered down because people Prep their kids and go to “certain” psychologists for IQ tests. (Yes, my kid was in AAP without prep and an IQ test.)

But how can you say that a standardized test score is less “watered down” that an entirely subjective GPA?
Colleges need something to go on. If test scores aren’t a fair measure, and the gpa isn’t a fair measure, how are colleges supposed to determine which students are genuinely prepared?

You may have misread. It says AAP is watered down.

The point is score is not supreme over GPA and several schools have been test optional since before Covid and it works for them. They find a way to make decisions based on GPA, essays, recs and sometimes additional materials. It can be done well without a score according to those schools’ experience.

AAP was used as an example of another “thing” that is watered down by prepped testing, similarly to how the poster feels the value of SAT/ACT scores is diminished by prepping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Test optional needs to stop. Test sites are widely available for the class of 2022 and will continue through the year.

Yes. Tests are more available than before but test centers are still cancelling. I just got an email today that our test center in June is cancelled. So now I’m scrambling looking for another place. And this is here in DMV.

Ugh, which site cancelled?

There are 157 sites got cancelled in CA for May Exam. We have to last minute switch.

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Anonymous wrote:Test optional needs to stop. Test sites are widely available for the class of 2022 and will continue through the year.

Yes. Tests are more available than before but test centers are still cancelling. I just got an email today that our test center in June is cancelled. So now I’m scrambling looking for another place. And this is here in DMV.

Ugh, which site cancelled?

There are 157 sites got cancelled in CA for May Exam. We have to last minute switch.

Why cause panic on a dc area site about CA issues?
Sites are widely available here.