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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the admissions staff below Ivy tier honestly don’t want your scores if they’ll bring down the school average for rankings. Ivys+ I think will hold it against you. Just my guess. [/quote]
Emorys Test optional acceptance rate was 8% while the other was 17%. Not sure if Emory is ivy+, but I wanted to clarify info. [/quote]

Correlation isn’t necessarily causation. The strongest students may be the ones who traveled to another state to take the SAT and aced it. [/quote]

That is the issue, isn’t it?  I don’t know that anyone (outside of the schools themselves) will have enough data to judge whether test optional helped or harmed otherwise similarly situated students.

After reading all of this, and other threads, my impression is that, if your kid is a star and has some very attractive qualities (whether a “hook” or some personal accomplishment) that makes them desirable to a given school, but has a test score that would lower the average test scores that they report to the ratings entities, you are better off applying test optional.  On the other hand, if the student is your typical smart kid, but doesn’t have some other distinguishing qualities, a high test score could push them the top, and not having a score is a negative. I don’t have any data to support this, but it just seems logical. [/quote]

I agree with this.  Test optional is a tool that allows schools to ignore test scores from kids they want to accept but who don’t meet their minimum scores for standardized tests.  This would be hooked kids or those with another special talent/ extracurricular. [/quote]

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