Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP who cautioned about assuming that a return to testing will automatically benefit high stats kids. I am a grad of YHP, and a few years ago, before TO, I attended an admissions panel discussing what the school looks for. They could FILL THER CLASS with high stats kids over and over again. They said don't chase the perfect stats. It is all about what else your kid has to offer. So many people on this thread are delusional about why their kid was rejected/now has a better chance of getting in to these elite schools if TO goes away. And, as I said before, calling kids "dumb" is appalling.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP who cautioned about assuming that a return to testing will automatically benefit high stats kids. I am a grad of YHP, and a few years ago, before TO, I attended an admissions panel discussing what the school looks for. They could FILL THER CLASS with high stats kids over and over again. They said don't chase the perfect stats. It is all about what else your kid has to offer. So many people on this thread are delusional about why their kid was rejected/now has a better chance of getting in to these elite schools if TO goes away. And, as I said before, calling kids "dumb" is appalling.

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Anonymous wrote:This allows Dartmouth to better differentiate among students from low-performing, under-resourced high schools. But they're not going to admit white/asian strivers instead of those students. No way. So it's not what the standardized test absolutists were hoping for. In fact, it's worse for them than test optional.

No, it is much better that test optional or race based weighting, because it puts kids from a similar school/socioeconomic background on a level footing.

The race system hypothetically creates a system where an obama girl, with all her wealth, resources, privileges and oppotunities from the top private school in the country, to get admitted into an elote college with a far lower SAT than her asian classmate, or even an asian male immigrant from a failing urban public school with an SAT hundreds of points above her SAT, but 50 points below the expected score for asian males.

The test optional system allows an affluent classmate who cheated through high school to get high grades or paid someone to write their application, who scored a 1200 or 1000 SAT to get accepted over a classmate with similar grades, stats, activities and a 1530 SAT, and with the supreme court decision and no race consideration, even more smart minorities are losing out over mediocre rich kids.

Returning to tests required after the supreme court decision means that all those affluent and middle class students are going to be on a more equal playing field as all their affluent or middle class peers, regardless of race. The African-American math geek with the 1570 SAT is not going to get shut out by the white leadership girl with inflated grades and an 1100 SAT who submitted test optional with great extracurriculars. They will no longer be targeting the same schools. It also means that those brilliant kids from failing schools (disproportionately minority) will now get caught up and noticed since they will submit their scores once again.

This is moving back towards merit and opportunity.

To the PP with whom I have been going back-and-forth...this proves my point. I assume whoever wrote this post is not native-born. Notice how in their scenario, their kid is losing out to the AA with a 1570. Notice how the AA to whom they are losing out did not score a 1300 from Baltimore public schools.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP who cautioned about assuming that a return to testing will automatically benefit high stats kids. I am a grad of YHP, and a few years ago, before TO, I attended an admissions panel discussing what the school looks for. They could FILL THER CLASS with high stats kids over and over again. They said don't chase the perfect stats. It is all about what else your kid has to offer. So many people on this thread are delusional about why their kid was rejected/now has a better chance of getting in to these elite schools if TO goes away. And, as I said before, calling kids "dumb" is appalling.

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Anonymous wrote:This allows Dartmouth to better differentiate among students from low-performing, under-resourced high schools. But they're not going to admit white/asian strivers instead of those students. No way. So it's not what the standardized test absolutists were hoping for. In fact, it's worse for them than test optional.

No, it is much better that test optional or race based weighting, because it puts kids from a similar school/socioeconomic background on a level footing.

The race system hypothetically creates a system where an obama girl, with all her wealth, resources, privileges and oppotunities from the top private school in the country, to get admitted into an elote college with a far lower SAT than her asian classmate, or even an asian male immigrant from a failing urban public school with an SAT hundreds of points above her SAT, but 50 points below the expected score for asian males.

The test optional system allows an affluent classmate who cheated through high school to get high grades or paid someone to write their application, who scored a 1200 or 1000 SAT to get accepted over a classmate with similar grades, stats, activities and a 1530 SAT, and with the supreme court decision and no race consideration, even more smart minorities are losing out over mediocre rich kids.

Returning to tests required after the supreme court decision means that all those affluent and middle class students are going to be on a more equal playing field as all their affluent or middle class peers, regardless of race. The African-American math geek with the 1570 SAT is not going to get shut out by the white leadership girl with inflated grades and an 1100 SAT who submitted test optional with great extracurriculars. They will no longer be targeting the same schools. It also means that those brilliant kids from failing schools (disproportionately minority) will now get caught up and noticed since they will submit their scores once again.

This is moving back towards merit and opportunity.

To the PP with whom I have been going back-and-forth...this proves my point. I assume whoever wrote this post is not native-born. Notice how in their scenario, their kid is losing out to the AA with a 1570. Notice how the AA to whom they are losing out did not score a 1300 from Baltimore public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Fantastic!
Goodbye to the "bad at test taking" dopes with their grade inflated 4.0s.

Only bad at taking tests on Saturday mornings, apparently. 🤣😂😭

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Anonymous wrote:Fantastic!
Goodbye to the "bad at test taking" dopes with their grade inflated 4.0s.

What Dartmouth is saying is that it will now be able to accept more kids who are bad at test taking. Oops.

That is not at all what Dartmouth said.

Compression is an important skill.

Anonymous wrote:Really sucks for us if they go back to test required.

DC SAT score 1580, applied to college last year. So many colleges were TO. DC got rejected to T15. I do wonder if TO hurt DC.

DC#2 is a sophomore, not as high achieving and will probably have an SAT score around 1300 mark. TO would be great for this DC.

I know life is unfair, but this really stinks for my kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to take it further. I think they should rank SAT like they do class rank. Shoud show top % in 3% increments. That way colleges can very much see context and would be a huge boost for kids who are able to overcome in horrible school districts.

A kid who scores 1200 in a Baltimore school where the average is 892 has "overcome disadvantage" but is still not qualified for Ivy League work.

we don’t know that, that would
be up to the schools to decide. I highly doubt any of us posting here are data analysts for any of these schools. Just a bunch of over bearing helicopter parents going at it.