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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The irony. My senior --5s on all APs, 36 ACT.  The year scores don't matter.

I have a sophomore--hope he is a high test scorer too.  lol

Things that could help always seem to change after the fact for us.[/quote]

Everybody is really missing the point here. The point of reinstating scores is not to let in more high-scoring white kids from upper middleclass suburbs. In fact, it is the opposite. Reinstating required testing will allow the average test scores to go back down to reasonable levels for admission. Understand: these schools do not admit students on a sliding scale, starting with the perfect scores and going down from there. They are simply looking at test scores to ensure that students whose grades and schools do not give a complete picture can submit a test score to indicate whether they are capable of doing the work. For almost every single school in America a 1400 or even a 1350 (gasp) is plenty high. So now, underprileged students can submit those scores. During test optional, they weren't, so they were being left out. This change DOES NOT advantage high test scorers. And that's a good thing![/quote]

Spot on and well-articulated post[/quote]

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