The Test Optional Lie
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You may have heard, more and more colleges are abandoning their test-optional policies. And for the colleges that still let you conceal your SAT and ACT scores, there's more to the story.
Plain and simple...
There's a difference between APPLYING test optional versus being ACCEPTED test optional
The three most important academic components of a college application are 1. GPA, 2. rigor of course load and 3. standardized test scores. These three factors comprise approximately 60% of the entire college application.
Simple logic: if you remove one of these three academic components -- test scores -- the other two factors take on greater weight. So do the non-academic ones (40% of the application).
Mass marketing by colleges has created a tsunami of applications, year after year. But are those applicants from QUALIFIED students?
Or is a huge chunk of them from kids who think, "Princeton doesn't need test scores, so I'll throw in an application just for kicks."
Even though they have 92 average and a total of 5 AP courses throughout high school.
And even though they -- and their moms -- really, really want them to get into Princeton. :)
One more thing about test-optional policies: they're used by most colleges to admit underprivileged, visually diverse or other favored categories.
So if your kiddo is NOT a special category, it's harder for them to get in if they don't submit their SAT or ACT scores.
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P.S. If you're looking for merit scholarships, your kid's odds are MUCH higher if he has an SAT or ACT above the median for that college.
Bottom line: Higher scores mean greater odds of acceptance...
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