Looking for big schools that look at applicants activities/leadership

[Mwfan1921]

@cgemaj

She doesn’t want to take it. Doesn’t want the stress that goes with it to be honest. Knows it doesn’t show a true reflection of how hard she works. She did the PSAT in school and did terrible. Really knocked down her self esteem. Her sister went test optional (also did terrible on the SAT) and made the deans list the entire freshman year. I get why people do it, for her she doesn’t want to and quite honestly I respect that she knows she’s more then a test score. She is also a senior and in the midst of applying and is insanely busy with running clubs, captain of her team, VP of the class blah blah that I don’t even think there is time at this point to cram test prep into it.

This all makes sense.

Most of the test optional SEC schools will admit her with the 3.55 and no test. At TAMU, will depend on major. Auburn really wants test scores even tho they are TO…take a look at the Class of 2026 stats.

Which schools are currently on her list?

@cgemaj

How about Virginia? Anything there you can suggest?

Her HS GC and Naviance/Scoir (if they use that) will be most helpful here.

Va Tech probably reachy (but school/major will likely be relevant here too). James Madison, Old Dominion, George Mason would probably be targets/maybe likelies for her. Is JMU big enough with ~20K undergrads?

Depending on size requirements, she could look at U Mass Amherst, U Vermont, Bing. Are there any budget constraints?