She only submitted her test scores when she was at or above the 50th percentile mark at the school. Many people say that you should submit with test scores at or above the 25th percentile mark. For our particular situation, we disagree.
Even then, for schools that would offer merit and included merit in their NPC calculator, we would run NPC calculations to see what our merit award might be if D26 was test optional versus if D26 submitted her scores.
Interestingly, D26 often was shown a higher merit award if she applied test optional than if she submitted her score. So we left it out in those cases.