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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

I heard that comment too. One way to look at it is that the scores do give admissions offices information, so of course they'd like them. Their 25th-75th percentile range for last year for admitted was 1500/1580, so the midpoint would be 1540. It's true that not submitting a 1530 is probably foolish--it's a great score and would probably only be seen as a positive. But, if a straight-A student with excellent extracurriculars submits a 1200, I can't imagine that that would help their application, and more likely would hurt it. It would be great if admissions offices would tell us to submit everything above a particular score, but that's against their own interests.[/quote]

But why would a straight A student only score a 1200? That doesn’t make sense unless their school’s 4.0 is useless measure of ability. [/quote]

Some parents play the IEP game.. extra time for tests, repeat tests, tutoring, etc. to keep them grades up.  When the kid bombs a standardized test they go, "oh, he's a poor test taker" and push the kid to repeat the test multiple times to crack that 1400 benchmark..  [/quote]

1400 not hard to crack for mediocre student over 2-3x taking test.
1500 harder for Mediocre student [/quote]

1400 is 95th percentile
1500 is 98th percentile

"Mediocre students" aren't going to hit either no matter how many times they try[/quote]
+1  I've tutored for the SAT--if you're not a top student you're not hitting either of those scores. [/quote]

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