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And the fact that scores are so susceptible to prep makes it more clear you should submit; if the school assumes you prepped and still couldn't get a decent score, that's not a good look.[/quote]

I don't get you logic.   You think it's a better idea to submit a significantly below average score to Duke because you'd worry that,  if you don't submit a score,  Duke will assume that the student got a significantly below average score.  Doesn't make much sense.   
And I assume Duke would prefer to not have to put this mediocre score into its average.  
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NP: First, even with TO, it's not a mediocre score. Duke knows that a kid with a 1500 will thrive. Not submitting a 1500 could place the student in the not admissible pile if rigor or the GPA is questioned (e.g., grade inflation or lower than the average).

If Duke wanted to admit the OP's child, a 1500 doesn't necessarily bring down the average. You assume that everyone accepted yields. A student with a 1500 may yield because that is their highest rank acceptance, and a person with a 1550 may not yield because they were accepted at HYPSM or couldn't afford tuition.

You also should consider how AO's shape classes. After identifying the admissible students and institutional priorities, AO's can shape the class via statistical modeling and/or advanced algorithms to predict the desired GPA and test score averages, gender, etc. The class averages/demographics can be tweaked, for example, by increasing or decreasing the number of students accepted TO and/or increasing the number of students with scores >1550.

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