Impact of SAT optional admissions

bluebayou
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:02:20 +0000

TO schools DO take a hit in the USNews rankings unless they submit the scores of non-submitters.

Uhh, not quite. USNews makes a decrement to the test score rankings metric only if a school has more than 25% of its entering class as test optional, i.e., no test reported. Otherwise, the college gets the bang for the non-test buck.

Per USNews:

In the case of test-optional schools, our methodology is designed to give test scores less weight if less than 75 percent of an entering class submits ACT or SAT scores.

In other words as long as they have 75%+ of test reporters in the matriculating class, a college could ignore the bottom quartile (at the extreme).