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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rejected.  4.7 weighted.  3.98 unweighted.  27 act.  Upset.[/quote]

ACT definitely not in line with GPA....red flag[/quote]
This should not be a red flag. This will likely be my daughter next year. She has a slight learning disability but she excels in school because she is a very hard worker and is diligent. She just can’t seem to ace her standardized tests. Any school would be lucky to have her because she works hard and gets good grades.[/quote]

UMD is test optional. Applicants don't have to submit standardized test scores, so no need to freak.[/quote]

Yes, but think for a minute why tests are optional. It is to permit the process to admit a better demographic of students. But if you don’t contribute to the demographic percentage, then they will use scores to differentiate admits. Of course they don’t say that.  But, hearing the admit status with and without test scores verified just that. In this day and age of grade inflation, getting a high GPA is easier and doesn’t necessarily differentiate the student for admissions. Submit those GPA with high test scores and you get in. Submit the GPA without test scores, then you are at the mercy of the admission demographics, and may or may not get in.  Again, no one is talking about that for obvious reasons and we all prefer to think that tests are not important.[/quote]

A lot of the test optional stampede was triggered by COVID. Now schools (including Harvard) are looking at data to see if it even made a difference in students' performance. The underpinnings of this trend are much more nuanced than what you are suggesting PP.[/quote]

Maybe some, but most options were touted as the panacea towards testing biased (whether true or not).  It was advertised by many schools as such. As a result, it allows universities to rightly permit a better student demographic, and not be limited to test scores alone (read: more flexibility for admissions).  GPAs alone are not perfect, nor are tests - but SOMETHING is needed to differentiate great students. If everyone has is special due to grade inflation (which is a real trend over the last decade), then no one is deemed special. High test scores help a student if otherwise not positively contributing by to demographic stats. But not submitting bud a flag to AOs that the student didn’t score well. Otherwise, they would submit.  No high performing test raker is not submitting high test scores. And no high performer is not at least attempting to take a test.  [/quote]

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