Impact of SAT optional admissions

Sue22
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:09:40 +0000

Unless you’re accusing schools that have a sizable proportion of the class applying TO of cheating it would be pretty hard to manipulate the stats to come out that way. The schools either collect the data retroactively or they don’t. They don’t get to choose which of the TO students’s stats they’ll report.

Of course all schools could just chop off the bottom 25% percent of scores and report the top 75%. Again I think that would be seen as cheating.

I guess some schools that aren’t really serious about being test optional could manipulate their admissions process so that they never take more than 25% of the class TO but that seems like a stretch to me.