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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HS virtual session on this recommended submitting test scores for (I may not be remembering everything 100% correctly):
- merit aid
- athletes
- competitive majors
- if test scores are high and grades are not tip top

For test optional, they recommended:
[/b]- Look at how many applicants in the prior cycle were accepted test optional[b]
- Are students' grades/EC strong enough to make a case for admission
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This is info people want to know. Why can’t school college counselors be candid about this?? Give some real statistics one way or another.[/quote]

You do realize that this is based on nothing other than opinion because the colleges themselves release almost no data on test optional.  [/quote]

I just saw something from UVA the other day -- For the ~50,000 applicants for the HS class of 2022, 43% did not submit test scores and 28% of the students admitted did not submit test scores.
I do not know the breakdown of in state vs OOS.

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This is interesting because uva downplays the importance of test scores in its cds and though the comments of its admissions staff.  Yet more than 70 percent of the admitted class submitted test scores which is on par with schools like BC which say they do care a lot about scores.[/quote]

22,000+ of applicants didn't submit test scores to a T25 school. 6,000+ got accepted.

Try putting the TO genie back in the bottle. [/quote]

Personally I’d rather have my student in the group that makes up more than 70 percent of the admitted class, but you play your own odds.[/quote]

That "70%" used to be 100% before test optional changed college admissions. No guarantee even if you do submit a test score.

Now there are test takers that get rejected and TO who accepted in their place.

Better adjust to the new landscape.[/quote]

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