For most of us, we should just treat it as test required.

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Anonymous wrote:Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants.

They are test optional. You can guess about Michigan’s preferences, but their official policy is TO for all.

Look at your school’s scoir from the last 2 years and it is pretty clear they want scores—high ones.

And yet…the policy is test optional. Again, you can do this analysis and tea-leaf-reading for every school. But the policy is the policy.)

(Also, I know TO candidates admitted OOS in the last couple of years. So.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants.

They are test optional. You can guess about Michigan’s preferences, but their official policy is TO for all.

TO is for the football player that has a 20 ACT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants.

They are test optional. You can guess about Michigan’s preferences, but their official policy is TO for all.

Look at your school’s scoir from the last 2 years and it is pretty clear they want scores—high ones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants.

They are test optional. You can guess about Michigan’s preferences, but their official policy is TO for all.

Anonymous wrote:Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Michigan wants test scores from OOS applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:Athletics - Div 1.

Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt

Yep. Doesn’t look good as supposedly “elite” schools. The number of test optional non-athletes at Vanderbilt is ridiculous.

How many?

Half of the top 25 schools are still TO. (95% of all schools are still TO.) As long as Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, Michigan, etc. are getting candidate pools they like, they will stay TO.

Anonymous wrote:Athletics - Div 1.

Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt

Yep. Doesn’t look good as supposedly “elite” schools. The number of test optional non-athletes at Vanderbilt is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Athletics - Div 1.

Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt

then why is stanford moving away?

Bc it doesn’t care about winning as much?
Don’t know.

Anonymous wrote:Athletics - Div 1.

Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt

then why is stanford moving away?

Anonymous wrote:Who here would you expect to “have intel?” You think some admissions officer from NU is lurking on DCUM?

+1. Hi I’m an admissions officer and I can tell you OP exclusively for DCUM only that Northwestern will remain test optional for 292.5 days

Who here would you expect to “have intel?” You think some admissions officer from NU is lurking on DCUM?

Athletics - Div 1.

Same for ND and Duke and Vanderbilt

Seems like peer schools have moved away from test optional. Anyone with intel on why Northwestern is holding out?