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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD's college counselor told her not to submit scores for schools where her SAT is below the 75%. Sadly, she's only submitting it for one school. GPA is high, so hoping for the best.[/quote]
What?  That sounds insane.  Get a second opinion.[/quote]
It's not insane at all. A high SAT score offers almost zero predictive value for a kid with high grades (and good rigor). Since it doesn't actually help to answer the question it's ostensibly meant to address (Will this kid be able to handle our program?), it's valuable only if it creates some positive externality for the school. A score above the school's 75th percentile does that (by helping along the TO upward spiral of "median scores"); a score below the school's 75th percentile for the most part doesn't.[/quote]

Not true actually,  the research shows that test score plus gpa are more predictive, in a statistically significant way, than gpa alone.

Add in that many schools artificially inflated grades in the Covid closure era and the immediate aftermath (sophomore and junior year for current applicants.  Given the recent news about how far standardized test scores dropped generally, it is even crazier for schools to be test optional.  But that is the system colleges are giving us.[/quote]
Link?[/quote]https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/sat-act-study-report.pdf

Read the whole thing or skip to the last page, last paragraph.[/quote]The irony that the UCs are now not even test optional but test blind[/quote]

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