Yes, test optional applicants are more likely to enroll. I suspect, but I’m just guessing, that this was probably similar to low-scoring applicants in the test-required days.
What is hard from an applicant’s perspective to imagine is what the effect of that yield likelihood has on an admission decision at certain schools. Colleges will have an algorithm and test score/test optional is a variable in the algorithm. What role does that algorithm result play in admission decisions? Ultimately, at some sort of margin, it affects chances of admission. High scoring apps may have a greater chance of admission from an academic measurement, but a lower chance of admission from a yield-likelihood measurement. Just thinking out loud.
May I ask which schools? We were told 1550 and up for the top 15. 1500 and up otherwise.
However school counselor contradicted and said as long as it’s in the reported range, it was good to submit.
As Mwfan1921 noted, I used federal reporting, which includes the CDS and IPEDS. For federal reporting, Emory provided notably different numbers. Emory says 227 submitted ACT in federal reporting vs 554 submitting ACT on website you linked above.
Elsewhere on Emory’s website, Emory reports that 64% of admitted (not matriculating) students submitted scores (see Emory's Class of 2027. ), again far less than 80%.
“Overall, 36% of students admitted to the Emory College Class of 2027 chose not to submit SAT or ACT scores.”
The link you provided differs from Emory’s federal reporting (CDS/IPEDS), differs from the article linked above, and would lead to higher % submitting than nearly every other test optional college.
In any case, I explained my methodology in the first post. These are estimates. It’s not meant to be a precise value for every individual college. One can list particular colleges for which the estimate is more or less accurate for a variety of reasons, but it works reasonably well for most colleges that have published numbers.
For example, the graphic a few posts up shows 57% of matriculating students did not submit scores at W&L. The original post of this thread estimates that 54% of matriculating students did not submit scores, underestimating by a small margin.
We can’t separate out that those with higher test scores may simply have relatively stronger applications across the many other factors that are evaluated via holistic admission.
The “Note” might be the thing thats incorrect.
Looking at the 2020 numbers (test required) its more than the enrolled students for that year. So it cant be the highest reported.