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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]colleges will start making announcements for class of 2026 soon to give current sophomores plenty of time to prep.

Current juniors will be the last class to have real test optional options.[/quote]

Brown and Dartmouth are implementing them for class of 2029 (currently juniors)...no options there. At least Yale offers flexibility on the types of tests accepted.

HS class of 2025 should be exempted from these requirements giving the timing of the announcements.[/quote]

That's silly.  Surely kids (and parents, and counselors) knew that schools were reviewing the policies and considering going back to test-required.  Anyway, March-August before senior year is a fine and traditional time to take the exam.  (Really, are there kids who never even take the exams because of TO policies?  I assumed almost all took the exams and decided not to submit based on lower-than-hoped-for scores.)[/quote]
Your kid has over 7 months to take the test even if class of 2025. Some even take October of senior year. 
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Come on--they obviously took it once and did bad. Or took a mock at their school and figured they would have to do too much 'work' and studying to raise some points.

We already know that. Virtually every kid in the DMV takes it at least once.  Every HS in the DMV suggests this.  My kid is a sophomore and their school already provided free mock ACT and mock SATs.

IF they kid didn't ---well---they already weeded themselves out.[/quote]

This! Every parent here fighting for TO with pretend reasons really does have a kid who didn't do well in the tests. A good number of them are spending multiple hundreds an hour to get that score to go up to that magic 1350 number. Of course, they'd all like for the SATs to disappear  :lol: [/quote]

Agree with this. Very obvious.  wealthy parents who don't have high scoring kids are the most pissed off about this.

Signed --

Former NMSF with immigrant parents who never did one thing to help me with "test prep" and whose score certainly helped get into a good college.[/quote]

This is so ignorant and smarmy. All we know from this is that you are good at standardized tests and at gloating.

I don't disagree with the decision entirely,  but, some kids just don't do well with this format. I taught SAT prep for years, and it doesn't measure intelligence.  I do think it's a useful data point,  but I wish Brown had followed Yale and included AP and IB as options in lieu of SAT or ACT.[/quote]

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