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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are focused on the wrong thing. [/quote]

Nobody knows.  It changes every year.  
[b]If colleges suddenly realize that high sat scores are a scarce commodity, they will start to select for that.  [/b]
If international level oboe players are a scarce commodity, they will select for that.  
I remember when all the schools started women's hockey teams but there weren't a lot of female hockey players and they were selecting for female hockey players.

It's not crazy to think there will be a run on high SAT scores with the return to test required.[/quote]

It is ludicrous to think that. Any school with a 15% or less acceptance rate is already getting a plethora of high scores every admissions cycle and they are choosing the students that they want based on their entire application, not their test scores. There is no reason for this to change. [/quote]

You missed the point.  In previous cycles they have the luxury of letting in 30%-40% of the incoming class test optional.  When these three schools reinstate test required, their class shaping has to adjust accordingly if they want to maintain the same or similar score distribution.  [b]And they do maintain the distribution.[/b][/quote]

This is an incorrect assumption. If a larger move towards test required happens schools will just be returning to the pre-Covid standard that they know well and rankings pre-Covid/post-Covid didn't significantly change.

Schools [b]MIGHT[/b] want to maintain their relative ranking among their peers but they aren't going to give up the students that they want over a small move in SAT averages. They are in the same boat and rankings aren't driven by SAT scores, they are mostly driven by endowments. This is easy to see in the rankings. If the drive for the highest SAT scores was a driver you would not hear the annual "wailing" of high stats kids who got denied at top schools because the rest of their profile didn't measure up.[/quote]

There is no need to speculate on this point.  Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, etc. will provide the test required CDS very soon.  Let's wait until the data becomes available.  My bet is they basically maintain the distribution with a small dip.  [/quote]

[b]Brown and Dartmouth[/b] already went test required last cycle (2024-2025).  I think Penn and Stanford are newly test required.[/quote]
Yes, they are.  But their CDS for the test required cycle has not been published yet.  We don't have the updated distribution. [/quote]

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