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[quote=Anonymous]Advice from both school and private counselor last year was only send in scores to TO schools when it is an advantage to your application.   I went to one college admission session  where they more or less said it’s not helping you to send in a score unless it’s at least at their average admitted student range (which was something like 1480-1530 SAT).  I also had another mom separately echo something similar where she said the kids sending in test scores were only the ones that did really well (1500’s) so sending in what is still a good score (mid to high 1400’s) but not at least in 50% range worked against their child at certain schools because they were being compared against the pool of people with similar GPA but that had sent in those higher test scores.

Bottom line though, it really needs to be a school by school decision.  There could be some schools that are truly not test optional, sort of like when optional essays aren’t optional, and even for the ones that really are TO, you have to see where your child’s score falls within the average ACT/SAT for admission to the school.[/quote]

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