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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have always operated with the understanding that optional pretty much means required.[/quote]

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that applications from white/Asian UMC kids in the DMV without a test score can raise a red flag (i.e., why wouldn't they submit a score unless it was weak)?  And a 32 ACT may not be stellar, but I think it's still the 97th percentile so why not submit to clear up any doubts?[/quote]

what is the basis for that understanding? please don't say DCUM.[/quote]

Logic[/quote]

that's a shorthand way of saying "pulled it out of my ass"

Stanford's common data set for 2021-22 shows that for first year students who enrolled in 2021, 12.6% submitted SAT scores and 8.7% submitted ACT scores. Are you saying that the 80% that did not are all non-white/Asian UMC kids?

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Last year, many kids didn't have a choice to submit or not. They never got the chance to take the SAT or ACT at all. [/quote]

kids how enrolled spring of 2021 were seniors in 2020-21. Pandemic hit spring of their junior year. You're telling me that 80% of these highly motivated students didn't take a single SAT/ACT prior to March of their junior  year? SAT/ACT were available in many parts of the country by fall of 2020.

And enrolled students in 2021 included a large cohort who deferred admission from the prior year, so this may include their stats, which were skew the test/no test results even more.

the bottom line is that it certainly didn't hurt people then, and you have no actual data/evidence to support the claim that only certain people have to submit test scores.

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NP. Yes, I am. My child was class of 2020 and didn’t sit for the SAT (didn’t take ACT) until March 2019. Took it once more that June and got a 1530. This was in a more “average” high school where it was just not the culture to take it earlier than that. My kid would’ve been screwed if they tried to execute the same plan as a ‘21 grad. [/quote]

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