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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a summary of the Dartmouth paper. The first chart is a bit hard to read, but for more-advantaged students, those with a 1500 SAT had about a 6% chance of admissions while those at 1550 had about a 10% chance. So meaningful. Note, this isn't all-else-equal, meaning that the 1550 kids might have been stronger in other areas. Still, which would you rather be?

I'd re-take IF I thought a higher score was possible. But people also reach their limits and hitting your head against the ceiling may not be helpful emotionally.

https://www.nber.org/digest/202504/test-optional-policies-and-disadvantaged-students?page=1&perPage=50
[quote=Anonymous]On this forum I have seen posts claiming that Dartmouth published their data that demonstrated how incremental changes after 1500 did lead to higher acceptance rate at Dartmouth. One can argue its correlation as opposed to causation, but as an engineering faculty for many years I believe there is a tangible difference in how fast/well a new concept is learned and in exam performance between a student with a 780 math and another with a 720 assuming these scores are their ceiling after multiple attempts and assuming they have worked reasonably hard in the class.[/quote][/quote]

It definitely looks correlation not causation.  The same trend you described is also observed when scores are omitted (solid red line).  The increase in admit rate is due to the other parts of the application.  [/quote]
Actually, for the 1525+ score range, the admit rate is decreasing as the score increases (when scores are not reported).

It’s also unclear why some applicants would choose to not report a 1525+ score.[/quote]
For those who selectively pointed out the same trends between the blue and red line segments for the score range 1475-1525, why are the opposing trends for scores 1525+ ignored? I suspect the sample size for “not reporting a 1525+ score” is very small?[/quote]

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