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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Admissions staff is trained to evaluate a applicant based on what's submitted. Test Optional didn't just happen yesterday and some of the highly selective colleges have been test optional for years (U of Chicago, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, etc).

Based on the gripes from some DCUM parents, some TO applicants have been accepted over 1500+ SAT applicants. If your kid has a great application with academic rigor, ECs, essays, recommendations, if he/she goes test optional, the one testing data point won't be any more of a deal breaker than the thousands of kids who get rejected with high SAT scores.[/quote]

In a pile of virtually indistinguishable applications, a good score will put one above all the others that don’t include a score.

In a test optional environment, if score free applications are chosen over ones with great scores it’s because something else stood out.[/quote]

In a pile of indistinguishable applications, hardly anyone gets admitted: they are indistinguishable.

Admissions officers know who they want to create a class. For the selective colleges, those they admit meet the requirements - test score or not.[/quote]

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