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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Listened to Dartmouth Dean’s (Lee Coffin) new Admissions Beat today. He had the Princeton Dean of Admissions on - she said TO is actually really TO…but then, seemed to imply if you are engineering, though, the math score may be important?
Double standard for test scores depending on major?

Anyone seemed newsworthy.

“Princeton, advice to your test optional applicants?

Well, the first thing I would say is that when a school says it's test optional, you should believe them and recognize that you're not going to be at a disadvantage if you do not submit testing. I think the challenge with looking at sort of the average or the middle 50 percent, right, is that those are all skewing higher at schools that are still test optional because students who have high testing are the ones who are submitting and that's where that middle 50 percent is drawing from. My advice is, particularly if you are looking at a heavily quantitative major, so our engineers, for example, if you are feeling good about that testing, especially the math testing is something that we would likely want to see.

Some of it boils down to thinking ahead about what you tell us you're interested in, and how you're feeling about those scores, and then really having a conversation with your school counselor.”

From Admissions Beat: Seniors, It’s Time to Pivot from Discovery to Applying!, Sep 9, 2025
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It's Princeton.

Admissions chances are slim, TO or not.[/quote]

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