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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Test optional has thrown college admissions into chaos.[/quote]

Thankfully! 
I've got to be honest that I still don't understand segregating the highest achievers so much in relatively small schools. I don't think it serves them especially well for the future either. [/quote]

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OK, then be prepared for obscene numbers of applicants and an unmanageable workload for admissions officers. All of that leads to a lottery mentality. If you think that's great and appropriate for kids to have no idea what's a realistic list, then you're welcome to that opinion. I think its nuts (and unmanageable).[/quote]

Tbh, an actual lottery does sound appealing.  Have each college set some sort of eligibility criteria (either minimum GPA/class rank or SAT/ACT or certain AP scores or whatever) and just plunk randomly from that.  A 1570 SAT is just not meaningfully more ready for even the toughest college than a 1420 is. Engineering schools might require a specific math score to be eligible.  Forget having 13-14 year olds specifically curating their lives to appease a hypothetical AO 4 years hence, which is insane.   Combine this with ranked preferences (each college first pulls from the pool who ranked them first), and we might actually be on to something.  Might this dilute the name brand of the “tippy top“ (to use an expression I hate more than life itself), sure, it might in the short term. But I don’t believe it would diminish the actual education whatsoever, either in the long run or short term.

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My bias is my kid was admitted to top choice school early and I think a lot of it had to do with the research he did into “why” and being able to articulate his answer in the essay.  I guess I am a believer in trying to achieve good fit.  So I actually would argue for the opposite of a lottery: limit kids to 5 private/OOS apps and require kids to really strive to find places where they would be happy.  Then give kids automatic in-state acceptance at certain benchmarks such as class rank and rigor.[/quote]

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