How important are standardized test scores?

99Dilemmas
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:02:06 +0000

It definitely wouldn’t hurt to bring it up, but I don’t think that it would change the mind of an admissions officer. If you are on the fence with everything else, however, this score could break you.

I’m going to paraphrase a bit because I heard this a while ago at an information session for some (top) school, but the officer said that they don’t care as much about standardized tests as most people think. It just so happens that the hardest working and best students also score very highly on these tests, so it seems that the school only admits students with higher test grades.