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[quote=Anonymous]I think submitting might have been slightly better.  But, let's look at this rationally.

If your child had submitted, the test results likely would have been a neutral/as expected. Because they weren't high enough to be a plus.

Then, your child would be compared against similar candidates...DMV suburban candidates/same high school/etc.  If GPA was competitive, they probably wouldn't assume the SAT was insanely out of range.

Then the AOs would have been looking for differentiation elsewhere in the application. Either strong, believable interest in the program, a particular major, interesting recs, fantastic essays, etc.  That's what would drive the final decision.

The whole college application picture has been muddled by TO and yet some schools firmly believe in it because it gives them discretion to go beyond cookie cutter candidates and slickly packaged rich kids without hurting stats.  I think the AOs are well aware that ordinary people don't know what the best decision to make is re: TO.  As we can see from the recent release of the Dartmouth info, the schools are still learning about the impact of TO and when using it works best.  So your daughter made her decision months ago when all parties had less info on which to make a decision about the meaning of going TO.

I think this didn't matter much in your daughter's case.  Unless someone unhooked and similar with lower test scores gets in from her same high school, I wouldn't give it any more thought.  And if that does happen, the true reasons (essays, recs, major) are still unknowable so best to let it go now.

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