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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recently heard a podcast where the Dartmouth dean of admissions said they were moving from test optional to test aware. Basically saying, yeah, of course we'll notice if you don't send in a score and if you're coming from a UMC high school.  That was the tone I was picking up.  He was also saying, just send it .. it's better than you think. (which I'm not so sure is true)

I'm looking for more test aware schools. Has anyone else heard of schools moving that way?  [/quote]

If a school is "test aware"...seems like if you score a 1400+ you should send the score.  I don't know what the 25 - 75 range was prior to TO, but it was likely starting in the 1400s.

The description above would imply that not sending test scores means you are probably in the 1200s.  It also seems to imply that TO is only for disadvantaged kids...and that honestly, an UMC kid should just apply somewhere else vs. TO.

Again, prior to TO, almost no UMC non-athlete, no hook kid would even have wasted their time applying to Dartmouth with a 1200.

Not a shock that MIT applications dropped 30% when they went back to requiring test scores last year.[/quote]

Did MIT admit students without tests that did not do well their first year?[/quote]

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