<p>ditto Fa-Fa-La-Lena: CC Students are breed from birth to take these high stakes tests. Colleges know the scores exist. NOT submitting test scores is likely to raise eyebrows in not positive ways. </p>
<p>Super-competitive colleges also say in their websites that they require something like three years of math, two of science etc etc, when we all know that only a supercharged transcript will get one in the door. Same with test scores - not required, but…</p>
<p>Check out the Rose Hulman admission website. Required: transcript and test scores only…but if you would like to send an essay or two, recommendations or SAT IIs, plus other suppliements, they will be read. Tis’ the quintessential example of “not required, but no chance of admission if you don’t” games.</p>
<p>Explaining this to literal/engineering-minded family members has been interesting.</p>