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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I swear I heard the Dartmouth guy (Lee coffin?) saying that when, after admissions cycle ended, they solicited from College Board the scores for TO applicants who had taken the test, and saw a clear linear correlation between test scores and GPA. Very rarely did they diverge, so the SATs only backed up why they were already seeing without the scores. Did anyone else hear that conversation? Am I misremembering? Might have been on Your College Bound Kid. Maybe 4-5 months ago? [/quote]

This doesn't make any sense.  Assumably the test optional matriculants had high GPAs.  And that Dartmouth subsequently learned that they also had high SAT scores that they just didn't submit?

[b]Why would these kids have not submitted their high scores?[/b]

None of this makes sense. 
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I posted below (12:27) to clarify the OP. The students are not submitting high scores because they don't think the scores are high enough. In other words, students are not submitting, or else their score is at least within the 50-75 percentile and, in many cases, above the 75th, which is increasing the average at Dartmouth and peer schools.[/quote]

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