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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with a previous poster that this system is broken. The gamesmanship just cannot be what schools intended with test-optional. My son also has a 1380, which is why I clicked on this, and he is submitting it everywhere. It’s a good score and he worked hard for it. A school that would reject him KNOWING that many test-optional students didn’t score nearly as well is really not a school worth going to.[/quote]

It may just be me, but I feel like [b]university admissions are a lottery[/b].  I had a kid that scored a 35 (first sitting) on the ACT with a good GPA.  [/quote]
Good take. Never heard that before. [/quote]

For around 20 schools, random lottery.

For around 30 additional schools, hard to read.

For literally every other school: pretty straightforward.

NYU (for example) had 120,000 applications last year for 5,700 seats, that’s a 5% admit rate, I can’t imagine anything they care less about than whether you are confused about their test policy or not. Shut up and apply, dummy.

BTW at $80 per applicant that’s $9.6 Million in revenue where 95% of the players lose, and the winners get to hand them $95k a year for four years.

Literally better odds playing roulette at a casino.

The number of applicants will go up in 2024.

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Funny you use NYU for your straightforward example. NYU does not include more than 25% of admitted freshman in those stats. If the applicant's acceptance is moved to the school of Liberal Studies, they don't include that in their admissions stats, that is 25% of first years. If admitted to a First Year Away program, also not included in the stats.[/quote]

If you doubled NYU’s acceptance rate it’s still below 10%.

The important part is the 120k applicants, that’s 2x Columbia. DOUBLE.

Entirely possible NYU will be more selective than several Ivies by 2030 which is bonkers for a school that a commuter college in the Bronx and was ready to file for bankruptcy in the early 1970’s.

It’s the original “Northeastern” that went from zero to hero capitalizing on what modern applicants want.[/quote]

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