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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn't any tougher than any of the other years - Mom of 4. [/quote]

Yes, it was.  The statistics quite irrefutably show it was. My senior landed well but I look around and many did not.

- Mom of 6 (not really but see how that works?)[/quote]

Again - with the “same as every other year” people.  Schools made TO a reality - this alone changed the landscape of application pool.  That is not an opinion it is a fact.  The push to elevate non academic criteria is also a fact.  And finally - COVID - no in person schools and resulting grade inflation also is a fact.  [/quote]

Test optional is a change but the effect is unknown. The expansion of the applicant pool probably makes a difference but the pool has been expanding most years. The question is whether the magnitude of the expansion matters. Probably but hard to tell two weeks after decisions were released. Great qualified kids have always failed to get into schools. Is it really more this year?

Yes we do. Most schools reported what percentage of students applied T0 and what percentages

got in.
Elevation of non academic criteria happened just this past year? Really?  You’re going to argue that?

Where is the data supporting your fact that grade inflation resulted from the pandemic?

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DP.  Applications at the top 56 colleges rose by 25% this year. That’s definitely significant. In the past, it would be unlikely that there were 25% more kids that had the test scores to be competitive. Test optional removed that as a constraint. From the numbers I’ve seen so far, the kids who submitted tests were admitted at an only a slightly higher rate than kids that did not.  It was definitely a factor. [/quote]

+1. That TO resulted in a sea of applications is well documented. I don’t know where PP can possible get evidence that the impact is “unknown”. Every elite school received and documented a surge in applications.[/quote]

You don’t know how many applicants were actually test optional. You don’t know how many test optional applications were accepted. So I think the actual impact is and will remain unknown. It’s all speculation right now. [/quote][/quote]

Faldr. Every school I know published this  info.[/quote]

I am genuinely curious where this information is published.  for those schools that have published their CDS for 2021-22, all they tell you is how many SAT/ACT scores were submitted for enrolled students. You can't derive how many test optional students out of that other than a minimum numbers (students who submitted both SAT and ACT count twice). I don't believe the CDS published these stats for applicants or a breakdown on admission rates.

Some schools may, but all schools?[/quote]

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