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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vassar and Pomona are also going test-optional next year, as are Tufts, BU and Davidson. Seems like the SAT’s days may be numbered.[/quote]

You might be correct, but none of these are ivy league schools. [/quote]

[b]University of Chicago went test-optional two years ago. Not Ivy League but just as selective.[/b][/quote]

Ok, but how many unhooked kids who don’t submit scores get in? [/quote]

I'd imagine high scorers do submit their results and have an advantage over those who don't.  Test optional is disingenuous - ot doesn't mean "we don't consider your SAT scores."[/quote]

https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Ultra-Selective-College/246634

In 2019, “34,600 students applied, and 6 percent were accepted. Nondorf said [b]10 to 15 percent of all applicants didn’t submit ACT/SAT scores. And non-submitters constituted a similar proportion of admitted students.[/b]

Test-optional policies tend to appeal to many kinds of applicants. Officials at several other colleges that have dropped their ACT/SAT requirement recently said that many applicants from affluent schools end up applying under test-optional plans — even those who have solid scores.

Chicago didn’t see much of a difference this year between students who submitted scores and those who did not. Both pools were similarly diverse, Nondorf said, though applicants intending to major in the arts and humanities were more likely to withhold scores than those interested in science and math.

What qualities stood out among successful applicants who didn’t send scores? ‘They tended to submit something else that really strengthened their application far more than testing would have, even if the testing had been awesome,’ Nondorf said. Invited to send supplemental materials, students sent all kinds of things: creative writing, research projects, essays, and clips of dance or theater performances.”[/quote]

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