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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on the specific college, major, and what else your kid has on EC/awards (if they have national-level accolades, it matters less; if all they have is school clubs and leadership, it matters more).

For example, know several kids who got into Vanderbilt ED last 2 years from our private TO (school president leadership) bc a 14xx is not submittable there, but they had the other leadership that Vanderbilt desires.[/quote]

Vandy loves test optional, I would not assume this applies to any other T20.[/quote]

Agree. 
In T25, the only schools I wouldn't submit a 1480/90 to would be Vanderbilt and WashU (only because both came out and said not to when the kid asked regional AO about a 33 directly).
Would submit to all other T25.[/quote]

My kid got into Vanderbilt with a 1490. Submitted. But he was a class president kind of kid and an athlete - though not recruited at the D1 level, only D3.

I think the general rule is 1500 or a 34 gets you a look everywhere. But I would submit anything north of 1400 or 33, provided the rest of the app is great. Stanford too takes a lot of students that don't hit 1500. They look for other things once you hit a baseline.

I have no idea why Vanderbilt persists in being test optional. Pre-Covid, they had some of the highest scores in the country. Cynically, I'd say it's because they want to juice the number of apps. And they like the flexibility.

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Is it from anecdotal evidence that you say Stanford takes a lot of students with scores below 1500? [/quote]

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