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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some info from AO and URM perspectives

It depends. Factor in the school, department, major, % applicants submitting, and stuff like how many athletes, mathletes, FGLI, AP & IB-heavy transcripts, yield rate targets, AO's personal preferences & biases, the weather, interest rates, sleep deprivation, yadda yadda

Do NOT overinvest time, money, stress on tests. Like GPAs, the jury is still out on how effective they are. Very unlikely currently optional schools will jump back to required for all in next 2 cycles.

College Board needs to either a) fix the innate privilege problem of SAT, LSAT, etc. or come up with hard data proving their testing model is worth it.

What does matter are AP test scores and IB High Level course grades (diploma scores don't matter in US). Good grade in summer college course for credit in subject your DC loves would also be more informative than SAT.

Breadth over depth. Same goes for ECs. Better two or three highly personal or unique ECs than laundry list of teams and clubs.

There's no magic formula  :!:  :!:

Encourage your kid to explore and take risks in things that matter to them. Somewhere there is a school that will appreciate and empower them.

It's not worth the emotional damage of trying to game a system with no rules.

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CB might also consider not letting kids take the test 6X.  Those are the kids whose parents pay for test prep and for multiple tests so they can superscore. Or make the tests free so it's not just rich kids who can take the test 4X.  It's hard to figure out how to make this equitable with the tests or not.  I worry without the tests, the process is completely not transparent and there is no way to compare student across schools (except using the college's own internal ways of comparing schools based on students they have seen in the past.)  [/quote]

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