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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For competitive schools, scores are going to continue to be really important, if not more important given the wide variations in grading. Our college counselor dismissed them in a large meeting but in the one on one meetings, the first thing they look at is SATs. If you look closer at the studies, the grades are predictive, but only because kids were sorted by SAT scores first. In other words, in a MIT math class, nearly all those kids are going to have very high SATs, you don't have kids scoring 800 sitting in the same class with kids scoring 500. [/quote]

Competitive schools that have gone test optional:

Bates, Bowdoin, University of Chicago, Pitzer (if grades are above a certain threshold), Wake Forest, Wesleyan. A few others are "test flexible" including NYU and Colby. I think these schools can because they are small enough to practice true holistic admissions.

UC Trustees are strongly considering going test optional, which includes Cal Tech. If they do, I expect more to follow.

And yes right now most applicants to these schools do continue to submit standardized test scores but students who don't are getting admitted. [/quote]

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