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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Test optional should stay. Submit if you wish and the school will consider it. Don't submit if you wish and the school will not consider it. Simple. You don't need to get your knickers all tied up in knots just because your DC scored high on the STA/ACT. Submit your score but know that your DC's application will be viewed in its entirety.

GPA is the most important indicator by far because it shows the work that the student puts in all four years of high school. [/quote]

[b]GPA can be easily skewed by cheating, which is very common in most if not all high schools.[/b]

SATs can be improved but not gamed.  A 1200 kid is not going to test prep there was to a 1500.[/quote]

You know that colleges have been in the admissions business a long time right? You don't think they have devised a way to compare GPA and rigor across schools? They have regional reps that know the quality of high schools and they have a long track record of data to assess students coming from the high schools. Colleges are not stupid. [b]They all indicate in their common data sets that the GPA is the most important indicator. [/b]Ignore that at your peril. And go on some misguided attack on TO. [/quote]

They indicate that because that's all they have now that test scores are off the table.[/quote]

Some well know private schools in NY and the Mid Atlantic area have reps from ivies that visit multiple times a year. I’m sure they can tell that kids at those schools had more rigor than those in innercity Baltimore.

But most colleges do not have reps across the country that make it a point to know how rigorous a relatively well funded suburban school district in cities too small to be universally. There are over 23,000 high schools in the United States. No way they know the overall rigor/grading methods of each individual teacher. Because there can be a large variation even in the same school, of how tough the same course is/what earns an A—depending on the tescher.

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