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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our counselor told us that CNU historically have not put much weight on SAT/ACT scores. I realize they have a fairly high admissions % so that may be why, but they also are one of the few to encourage interviews for all applicants. They seem to have a holistic approach. [/quote]

I think your counselor is mistaken. Look at the SCHEV statistics[/quote]

You may be right but teen applied test optional and was admitted. [/quote]

And they are hooked, no?[/quote]

The answer to this really wouldn't prove anything.  Schools like CNU that aren't highly selective are going to admit some unhooked TO kids who have strong grades, ECs, etc.  Different story for unhooked kids from the DMV at UVA (although even there it's still possible, but a real long shot).[/quote]

Yet, SCHEV indicates that the 75th percentile of students enrolled last fall had a 1320 SAT and a 29 ACT and a 4.12 GPA.  [/quote]

And the most recent (2021-22) common data set for CNU shows that only 36% of enrolled freshmen submitted SAT scores and only 2% submitted ACT scores.  Thus a big majority of accepted students were TO.  Not too different for JMU, by the way -- 25% of enrolled freshmen submitted SAT scores and 5% submitted ACT scores.  But very different from UVA -- 51% of enrolled freshmen submitted SAT scores and 21% submitted ACT scores.  (And for good measures, at VT it was 42% and 12%, respectively.)

Now I realize the pandemic may have impacted the percentage of students taking standardized admissions tests, but that would NOT account for the big discrepancy between and CNU/JMU and UVA figures.  And there's no way that the percentage of test takers would have rebounded that sharply since then. [/quote]

SCHEV doesn’t use common app stats.[/quote]

Okay, but how is that relevant here?  The figures above on percent of enrolled test takers is from the Common Data Set for each school, the information for which comes directly from the schools.   [/quote]

We are citing SCHEV. Common app is irrelevant [/quote]

1. No one is talking about the common app. They are talking about the common data set (CDS). The common app and the CDS are two completely different, unrelated things.

2. SCHEV says the same thing as the CDS: 365 of 1012 CNU freshmen (36%) reported an SAT score. [/quote]

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