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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid scored 1590 on the first try. Also NMS  We love that there are many candidates who go TO.  It does not harm us or them. [/quote]
You are naive. My child with a similar score got waitlisted for HYPSM last year. If it wasn't test optional, I'm fairly certain they would have been accepted. The school has a small waitlist, and some TO kids have been accepted instead of my kid.[/quote]

Maybe those TO kids were more interesting, wrote a better application, had better recs, or overall seemed to be a better fit for the school.[/quote]
I'm not disputing they must have nice application, otherwise they would not have been accepted. But my kid also had a nice application, otherwise they would not be able to make it to a small waitlist. At the end, it is a number game. All I am saying, if TO acceptances revealed their scores, you would think SOME of those acceptances would become rejection. Why is this so hard to grasp :)
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And that doesn’t translate into your kid getting in. Face it they were judged to be subpar. How hard is that to grasp. [/quote]

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