You are probably correct. However, my DD was deferred from NCSU (not engineering) with a 4.3/3.7 in EA and better than excellent ECs. Got into UNC EA where she now attends. That typically does not happen. The only way I can explain is that she was test optional. I think no matter how “optional” tests are, for schools like NCSU they matter because inflated GPAs and such. Now could be my DD was an outlier and the AO was having a bad moment or whatever. No way to know.
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