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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the university can still consider SAT/ACT scores for students who submit then, doesn’t that put students who don’t submit at a disadvantage?

Let’s say you have two applicants who are equally qualified....but one submits a stellar SAT score, and one submits no score at all. Wouldn’t they be more likely
to admit the student with the strong test score?

Wondering if this change is more of a talking point than an actual change. Unless the process is “SAT blind”, I don’t see how it wouldn’t still be an advantage to submit test scores.

Thoughts? [/quote]
Maybe use the PSAT scores?[/quote]
Unfortunately, there were big issues with scores from the Oct 16th test date.  A bad test form.  See for example https://www.compassprep.com/major-drop-in-psat-scores

It will be interesting to see what happens with large numbers of schools having test optional policies.  It seems to me it gives the college cover to admit whoever they want because all the score submitters will have scores that are high enough based on past admission data for the college.

Grades are a weird variable here too, with the all-important second semester of junior year gone up in smoke.[/quote]

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