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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to imagine that the range of scores they're getting is small, so it makes sense that they don't find them significant anymore. [/quote]

With close to 50% not submitting scores, high scores would be helpful.

I keep hearing that if you come from a good school district, are [b]MC-UMV-Wealthy, no scores = low scores to universities nowadays[/b].  As our Counselor likes to say, nobody is NOT submitting a 35 or 1500 SAT.[/quote]

I hear that here, but I am not hearing it from college counselors.[/quote]

+1 first, what is a low score? If a UMC kid from a wealthy suburb attends a high school with a mean SAT of 1350 and applies TO to a school where the 50 percentile is 1500, what is the assumption of the AO? The student could have scored 1480 or 1100. A kid with a competitive GPA and rigor is more likely to have scored >1400. Is that a low score that indicates the student isn't ready for college at a competitive school!? Prior to 2020, a score of 1480 would have been competitive and fell between the 25th and 50th percentile. [/quote]

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