How will the pandemic affect MIT admission this year?

kutter
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:06:38 +0000

Lindagaf:

Any college that says they are test optional means it. No, the kid who wasn’t able to submit a score isn’t at a disadvantage.

I don’t mean that they would look at the application and go ‘They didn’t submit a test, that’s bad it must be because they are hiding something’ and score them (or whatever) lower.

I mean that when considering two students with similar qualifications in terms of GPA, ECs, etc and one has a perfect SAT score and the other didn’t submit one, that the first student would have an advantage. Basically the same reason why they went from test optional on SAT subject tests to not considering SAT subject tests at all.