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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]only admitted ... because I had the highest GMAT's in the class.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]Except they are not objective. ... So TO allows a student to submit that to demonstrate some added proficiency.  
... there are incredibly smart and accomplished students who don't test well. [/quote]

Standardized tests are more objective than grades.  There are smart and accompished students who don't get good grades.  If test-optional "allows you to submit scores", then applications should be grade-optional, and essay optional, and allow you to submit those.

I have seen executive-education programs where applicants are "too busy" to take the test.  This is just an excuse by a dummy who knows he will perform poorly on the test.  He will also perform poorly in the classroom and make more excuses.

It takes four years to build a high school transcipt.  But it takes only one morning to take SAT's.  These tests have incremental predictive power.   Schools should use all the information.

I saw students at the "W" high schools in the second- or third-hardest calculus class, with inflated grades, inflated extracurriculars, and inflated expectations.  They were in the nonsense "National Honor Society", but not in any hard classes.  I taught dumb students at a HYP university.  Absent a disability, if your daughter performs poorly on tests, then she is not especially smart.  She might be above average.  Maybe she is 80th or 90th percentile.  She is probably nice and concientious, but is not near the 99th percentile that needs to be at a top school.[/quote]

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