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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel better because some so many schools are so artificially high in scores that it is not realistic. No one is sending scores. Then your kid doesn’t get in because they really do want to see a score. It is not fair. People are feeling bad about a 1400 and that is something like a 95 percent. Schools that force you to send really do look at whole application and that is good.[/quote]

Exactly. The schools trumpeting their test optional policies aren't doing it to be woke or to give kids a chance who can't afford $50k prep courses or whatever other bull crap they claim. They're doing it so they can report a 33-35 ACT midrange on their common data set and look elite even though fewer than 20% of their applicants actually submitted their scores and the majority of those who matriculate score much lower.

DCUM woke snobs might thumb their nose at UTK's 25-31 midrange, but at least it's honest. The "elite" schools they cream over would probably look similar if they stopped playing stupid ranking games and made everyone submit.[/quote]

No highly selective school has fewer than 20% of applicants submitting test scores (except for test blind schools like CalTech or the UCs).  If you look at Duke, Ivy schools, etc., it is usually like 70% are submitting scores.[/quote]

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