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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you not submitting scores because you don't have any or because they are low. I've heard that if your kid goes to a private school where they took the SATs, not submitting those scores communicates to the school that they are low. Maybe public school kids who haven't been able to take the SATs are okay.[/quote]
15:55 PP, Do not have any scores. SAT cancelled twice, decided not to reschedule due to schools saying they were test optional. But schools shouldn't say test optional and lack of scores will have no negative impact and then defer and ask for scores anyway or draw a negative inference that a student must have low scores by not submitting. [/quote]

I think they went test optional when it was unclear if everyone could get a test. This fall, everyone I know who wanted a test got one. Our public offered the SAT in March, a week before everything closed. It seems that schools *might* penalize a kid who does not submit a score from that school. DC does much better on the ACT and it was cancelled 4 times, but DC got to take it in September and submitted it.

If a kid cannot take it because they have a parent with a life-threatening disease, they can explain that in the Common App COVID section. [/quote]

The mental gymnastics required to understand "test optional" are exhausting. However, I don't necessarily blame the schools. The test is not required, but if two students are relatively equal, a good test score might help.  There can also be aspects of two seemingly similar students' records that push one over the other, regardless of test scores, that we can't ascertain from the posts on this board.

My DD and her good friend are both applying to college this year. Their GPAs are similar, but my DD took the test and my her friend didn't. It was a pain and source of stress having the SAT scheduled and rescheduled so many times, and to some extent, the fact that DD took the test shows resilience. My DD's friend did not take it because she isn't a great test taker and chose not to, even though we live in the same county and she had the opportunity to take it.

With both B-plus students applying to many of the same schools for the same programs, based on the admissions decisions received so far, having a test score (in my DD's case a 1450) helped with merit aid. The bump was not huge, but it helped. It is hard to say whether there are other factors at play in the decisions. My DD has more extracurriculars, including many service oriented ones. Who really knows?  [/quote]

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