Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest. Test optional for over a decade. Rolling admission like Pitt, but for ED.

Wake ‘s rolling ED1 admission works different from Pitt. They release decisions once a month, through the fall, and students get their admissions decisions whichever date falls a month after their application is complete. There is no “rolling notification” for ED2, EA (limited to first gen applicants) or RD.

Here’s the list I copied from here a while ago:

list of of test optional private schools where more than 50% of the admitted class last year was test optional (private schools with greatest # of admitted TO students):

UChicago  
Cornell (only select colleges)
Vanderbilt 
USC 
WashU
NYU 
BC
Tufts
BU 
Lehigh
UMiami 
Northeastern 
Villanova  
Wake 
Tulane

SLACs:
Bowdoin
Pomona
CMC
Wesleyan
Middlebury

Is there a version of this list if T50/100 schools that take the most # of test optional students?

I saw it here before but can’t find it with search.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It would be more useful to see how many of the top 100 schools are TO.

That list will keep getting shorter and eventually disappear.

There will always be test optional schools.
Any school with an average sat score below 1100 is better off just going by GPA.

LOL, the vast majority are. The reason a subset of the highest profile/most selective schools are going back to test required is because they get huge volumes of applications and single-digit acceptance rates, and need test scores to cull. I would bet money that in five years the majority of top 100 schools will still be test optional.

Yes. Because with the population drop-off on the horizon- lower ranked schools are going to be fighting to attract students as enrollment drops off for so many.

Anonymous wrote:It would be more useful to see how many of the top 100 schools are TO.

That list will keep getting shorter and eventually disappear.

There will always be test optional schools.
Any school with an average sat score below 1100 is better off just going by GPA.

LOL, the vast majority are. The reason a subset of the highest profile/most selective schools are going back to test required is because they get huge volumes of applications and single-digit acceptance rates, and need test scores to cull. I would bet money that in five years the majority of top 100 schools will still be test optional.

It would be more useful to see how many of the top 100 schools are TO.

That list will keep getting shorter and eventually disappear.

There will always be test optional schools.
Any school with an average sat score below 1100 is better off just going by GPA.

WPI no test at all for over a decade.

Wake Forest. Test optional for over a decade. Rolling admission like Pitt, but for ED.

Bowdoin had been test optional for 50 years. Wesleyan has been test optional since 2014. Schools that were TO pre-covid are good bets.

Anonymous wrote:BU and Northeastern take the most from our school. Also I know two students who were accepted to Vanderbilt TO last year.

Is the school private, public or magnet?

Emory, Tufts take a ton. NYU, BU, NEU

That is a ton of test optional schools...

BU and Northeastern take the most from our school. Also I know two students who were accepted to Vanderbilt TO last year.

From crimson:

Top 100 Colleges That Don’t Require The SAT/ACT
According to FairTest’s website, a staggering 2,022 colleges in the US offer test-optional or test-free policies! This means you have more options than ever to find amazing schools that don't rely solely on a single test score. Below, we present our top 100 picks for this admission cycle.

Important Note:* Testing policies change frequently. Always double-check the most up-to-date information on each college's official website before applying.*

Amherst College
Art Center College of Design
Babson College
Bard College
Bates College
Bennington College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
California Institute of Technology
California State University
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Colorado School of Mines
Columbia University
Cornell University
Davidson College
Duke University
Emory University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lehigh University
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Michigan State University
New York University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Ohio State University
Pepperdine University
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Princeton University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
Rochester Institue of Technology
Rhode Island School of Design
Rutgers University
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
Skidmore College
Smith College
Stanford University
State University of New York (SUNY)
Swarthmore College
Texas A&M University
The College of Wooster
The Cooper Union
Trinity University
Tulane University
Tufts University
University of California
University of Chicago
University of Connecticut
University of Illinois
University of Maine
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Richmond
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Villanova University
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
William & Mary
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Which selective schools take the most test optional students?
InT50 or so?
Humanities major (for kid whose math score is tanking submission)…

Anyone have resources?