Reply to Son having a hard time deferred everywhere so far

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Son having a hard time deferred everywhere so far "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  So you don’t agree that a student with a 28 ACT who was admitted test optional to a school that has a 35 average for admittees would not have attended a less selective school before not submitting scores was an option?  Because that is what you are calling “a tinfoil hat theory.” 
[/quote]

I don't agree with the premise that a test optional student would not have been otherwise admitted.  There is no way to know this.

I don't agree that the adcoms can't tell whom they want without the scores.

What you are claiming is that competitive schools are lowering the bar for admission.  The fact that you are making this up when there is no evidence is the definition of a tinfoil hat theory, yes.

There are the same number of seats and the same number of kids.  Top kids who apply smartly all get into great colleges.

[/quote]

Test optional has absolutely lowered the bar for admissions.

There are [u]not[/u] the “same number of kids.”  In the past, the pool of students with a real chance of admission to top schools was limited to students with test scores in a given range. Those students are still eligible.  In addition, [/u]every single student[u] with a high GPA is now in the “pool.”  These schools absolutely saw an increase in applications, and they all admitted a significant number of kids without test scores. If your position is that those kids all had  high test scores and simply chose not to submit them, I think you need to prove that.

I agree that the Adcoms can tell who they want without scores.  That’s the beauty of test optional from an Adcom’s standpoint. They can pick who they want without having to be constrained by the threat of taking a ding on the school’s ranking by admitting too many kids with low test scores. It gives them ultimate flexibility, with absolutely no transparency to anyone outside the school, which is why they like it. (See, e.g., reports of kids being asked to withdraw their scores before acceptance). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics