Is SAT 25th or 75th percentile a better indicator of how much schools care about the SAT (or ACT)?

[Mwfan1921]

Btw, the CDS section on Most Important, etc, is not policed. Colleges can answer anyway they feel. And No One Category trumps the others, regardless of whether it’s called Very Important or not.

Exactly. Those answers can also vary by program/dept/school within a college/uni, and just to stay with the Cornell example, enough people have heard in admissions presentations that they do in fact track interest and it can help applicants (but the CDS says not considered).