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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS was deferred for engineering.  12 APs, all honors available if AP wasn't offered.  One B.  Test optional.  4 year varsity starter with regional awards, high ranked club team all 4 years.  Volunteer hours.  Spanish IV, but did not take anything Junior year due to schedule conflicts.  Took Calc BC as a junior than ran out of math and took AP Statistics senior year.  In STEM program at school.  Got into VT, which was his first choice, so didn't opt in to be reconsidered after being deferred.  [/quote]

Congrats to your DS for getting into VT.

What was the rationale for going test optional? I would think for engineering it would be harder admit without test scores -- i.e., the admissions officer(s) would really like to see how the student does on the SAT or ACT, especially for math.

My family may be going through this process next year, which is one reason I am asking. [/quote]

He had a good score, but with UVA’s 25 percentile being 1410, didn’t seem worth the effort to get it up that high. Took advantage of test optional since his score didn’t help his application.  Since he got into his top choice was a good strategy. If he really wanted to go to UVA maybe, maybe not. Unfortunately colleges don’t tell you why you didn’t get in. [/quote]

If he didn’t even get a 1420, he didn’t have a “good score.” [/quote]

We will probably have to agree to disagree on what is a good score.  A 1400 is 93rd percentile. I would consider that great. With test optional you really have to have great to amazing to be worth it to submit. [/quote]

I think most on DCUM would agree that a 1400 is not an objectively good score on the SAT. It is fine, but not “good.” lol [/quote]

Most people here are aimed at T20 or T10 LAC. Minimum is 1500, 1550 can be 'good'.[/quote]

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