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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, our schools are not highly competitive for top students. I have an average student who wants to get into the safeties of top students. Still, their scores are at the low end but still within the middle 50%. No one seems to know what to tell us. In reality it probably doesn’t matter if she submits or not because I will second guess myself if she doesn’t get in either way. [/quote]

It's very hard to advise you in a vacuum.  You need to remember that grades and course selection are almost always viewed as by colleges as more important than test scores.  So, if your student is within the 25/75 percent range, they're clearly in the zone and their test scores won't hurt them IF the grades are there.  With test scores slightly below the school's average, having grades slightly above should do the trick.  If the grades aren't there either, then you're in real trouble. A college isn't likely to accept a student with no test scores and average or below average grades.

Also, you don't say (or I didn't see) if you are full pay.  If you are, it will make a difference on the margins for private "safety" schools because most of them are need aware.  It won't make a difference for public colleges.

Finally, let me say this:  we are a white and privileged family living in a highly ranked public school district in NOVA.  We had two kids apply to UVA.  Both had very good grades and tough courses.  Both also had test scores at the lower end of the 25/75 range.  Both got in unhooked.  So don't buy the idea that the lower end of the 25/75 is the exclusive province of the "hooked."  It isn't.

The bottom line to me is that the better the school record and the lower ranked that the college is, the less importance submitting test scores is.  There's no hard and fast rule, however.  [/quote]

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