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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YES!

As a former poor kid, I have been arguing this point here for several years now, that test optional hurts smart and brilliant  poor kids and students from underrepresented communities, and only helps mediocre rich and upper middle class kids.

The SATs captures those smart and brilliant kids from less than ideal circumstances who will thrive in a challenging school environment.

Of course, most of the DCUM posters were emphatically against my posts.

I am happy to see the schools are starting to swing back towards the center, and away from fads that are not based on facts.

[i]"...There are hundreds of less-advantaged applicants with scores in the 1,400 range who should be submitting scores to identify themselves to admissions, but do not under test-optional policies.” Some of these applicants were rejected because the admissions office could not be confident about their academic qualifications. The students would have probably been accepted had they submitted their test scores, Lee Coffin, Dartmouth’s dean of admissions, told me...."[/i][/quote]

I went to a small rural school an went to a NESAC. My parent were from DC, but my dad wanted to be a rural doctor. The schools I was applying to had never heard of my high school. SAT and AP scores validated my GPA. Without them, I'd probably have gone to Furman [/quote]

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