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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's due to TO.  We've had several years now of this. Each year, kids only submit scores preferably at greater than 50% of the range which moves the needle.  Now you need higher than 1530 in many cases to submit your score.  So if you have a 1490 or 1500 you don't submit.  But the admissions counselor doesn't know you scored a 1500 vs the other TO kid that scored a 1200.   And the 1200 kid (who may come from an inflated grade school) has more time to hone a really cool EC.  So the high achieving kid that spent time studying for the SAT and getting good grades at the more competitive school is getting screwed. [/quote]

So just submit the 1500. There's not that much difference between a 1500 and a 1530.[/quote]

2 years ago my kid submitted a 1490 for a T10, it was 25% overall for them, but the Math score was 790 and 75%.  Given my kid was applying to engineering we determined we wanted the AO seeing the really high math score along with the 3.95UW GPA.  Figured that actually increased our kid's chances of admission.  Did it work? ED1 deferred to RD and ultimately rejected.  But at least we didn't wonder, was it because we didn't submit test scores.

If you have good scores you should submit them.  When it's a TO school, a 1500 is most likely not the reason your kid gets rejected---these are highly rejective schools with single digit acceptance rates, so many highly qualified kids will get rejected. But your test score, combined with everything else, might just be the thing that puts you into the accepted pile. 
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