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[quote=Anonymous]The TO stuff has become nuts, in my opinion. I think colleges should be test blind or test required. 
The TO movement is just making the kids try to play games with when and where  to submit their scores. By telling students to only submit to a test optional school if their score is at or above the 50th percentile of last years admitted students, we are just making the following year students need to score even higher to feel good about submitting scores. Soon kids with 1550 with be applying test optional and usefulness of scores will just disappear at highly competitive schools.
School counselors are telling top students to not submit their 1500+ to some schools..

If a highly competitive school is considering admitting a student and then sees a 1500, I highly doubt that would push them into the deny pile- if anything it would push into admit over a similar student without scores- 
Strong scores support a strong academic record and the colleges don’t expect all strong students to have only 1580-1600. 
Maybe I’m naive.[/quote]

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