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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think anyone knows. 
Test optional policies have [b]increased the pool of qualified applicants[/b] to the top schools by many fold.

Also, the class applying this year had Covid-era grading for 2 years of the 3 that are considered for applications.  In DCPS (for instance) the lowest grade a kid could get was a B if he/she did any work.  MCPS bumped all final grades up by one letter grade.  Lots of stuff like this happened all around the country in giant school districts (so hundreds of thousands of students impacted).

The class of 2025 will be the first that will have all 4 years back in a classroom with normal grading scales. [/quote]

No, test optional doesn't increase the pool of qualified applicants.  It increases the pool of applicants, and admissions offices either lack objective criteria for selecting the "stand-out" kids OR they are using test optional policies to provide cover for selecting a profile of students that are less academically prepared, but meet preferred demographic and political criteria.  Either way, kids who used to get into top schools are being pushed down the ladder.

Have you noticed the posts from people whose child scored 1200 on the SAT, so did not submit scores, but were accepted to great programs?  Yup...[/quote]

DP.  Do you have any idea how many posts like that are just trolls, trying to get under your skin?  Why do you believe them?  Obviously, a real person isn't going to post their kid's scores and then say, "but she went TO."  They'll simply say "TO."  [/quote]

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