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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My opinion: if you don't have a score in range for a college, then consider that college a reach for you, just as you would have back when tests were required.

[b]If you are applying to all schools TO, then you only have reaches on your list. Add targets and safeties where you can comfortably submit your score.[/b]

Submit anywhere that your score is close to the 25th percentile or above.[/quote]

This is demonstrably untrue (and very stupid). Many students don’t even take standardized tests. We can debate how important scores are to the most selective schools, but the idea that all schools need/expect test scores is untrue.[/quote]
Outside of CA, the only students who don't take the test are those who know they won't perform well compared to their GPA. That might be for a variety of reasons, of course.

Again outside of CA, are there students who would have scored well but chose not to take the test? Now THAT would be stupid.[/quote]

[b]Because they don’t want to spend time and mental energy on it? That was my kid.[/b]

Regardless, you concede that there are plenty of schools that are safeties without scores? Because your assertion otherwise is what I was calling stupid.[/quote]

The bolded says a lot about motivation and drive.[/quote]

It’s just a rationalization.  Kids who do well on the PSAT, which everyone takes, are going to take the SAT or ACT, unless they are in CA and targeting the UCs.[/quote]

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