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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With so much talk about colleges that TO, even Dartmouths with only 1/3 submitting as the rest likely scoring under 1450 if they had submitted...which colleges have a majority student body of say 1540 SAT without heavy prepping?

Our DC got 1540 with some self prep and no tutoring. We know she doesn't belong in a MIT, Caltech, Chicago type genius schools full of high scoring geniuses, but so many T30 seem to have at least 1/2 scoring under 1500. Which colleges have majority who could score in mid-1500 without tutoring and superscoring?[/quote]

This question is everything that is wrong with this forum.  For many of the reasons other posters have noted but also because in the real world, you interact with all kinds of people and, at least in my life, gain genuine value from those interactions - people express all kinds of intelligence from emotional to intellectual and your student can learn from engagement with all types, maybe even benefit from sharing their ease with schools/tests with others.  Acting like your DC will somehow "suffer" if exposed to kids who struggle is the very definition of elitism and is doing your kid a disservice.  My DC is dyslexic, graduated in top ten (not top 10%) of their class, got into several top 10 colleges and is excelling at the one they chose to go to.  We decided early on to go test optional to avoid the stress of prep, etc for a kid who is not a good test taker.  They did take the SAT with no prep when the school had all juniors take it and got an 1150 - is that kind not "good enough" to interact with yours?[/quote]

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