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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are looking for ways to reject you quickly so they can cut 28,000 applicants into 1,800 admits.

If your scores aren't top notch, and you send them, then you are giving them the definite information they need to reject you.

If your scores aren't top notch, and you [b]don't [/b]send them, then you have [b]not [/b]given them definite information, whatever they might suspect.

I'd lean towards not sending them if you're not above midpoint for the previous year's 25/75.[/quote]

Exactly. Then they have to read your essays. I listen to a different podcast not from the Dartmouth admissions Director but from someone else who mentioned that a lot of ivies want the score because it’s an auto reject pile for GPA and Test score They don’t even read anything unless you pass that first stage.[/quote]

Highly selective schools want you to submit the scores and want you to pay the fee and want you to add to their great application numbers and eventual yield. They want the score bc it’s entered into a data management system (like ptr-Vovid) along with zip code and gpa and school code, for auto sorting.

But if your score is below the 50th percentile mark and you do not have something really special… Not great… Not even normal awards… Something magical, and so unique… It’s a waste of time.

So for those kids if they are below the 50th percentile, I would say no don’t submit. Because it’s true they don’t even read your application if you were below unless there is some other hook

If you do not submit the score, you are automatically put into another pile. Read usually by different people/committee members.

Did you notice strangely a lot more test optional kids got into really good schools last year then kids with perfect stats in your circle?!? Maybe just a private school thing but I think not.
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What’s the data system and who is using it [/quote]

I went to a seminar with Selingo and he mentioned this type of data sorting too. Think it involved coding with colors (high schools; zip codes).[/quote]

The schools that were test optional but not really test optional are already correcting for this.  They (and everyone else) sees how it went wrong.  It is not how many are doing this year's applications.  They are putting the test optional kids in the same data system with a zero and not using a test-cut-off number.[/quote]

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