SAT Optional Schools

northeastmom
Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:49:34 +0000

Why wouldn’t an applicant submit scores if they were in the midrange or better in each section? There would not be anything to hide. What am I missing?

Financial need can be met by loans, w/s, or grants. Aid could be distributed as all loans and w/s to meet need, or all grants to meet need, and anything inbetween. Do you think that your D’s package might have been different if she submitted standardized scores that were better than Mount Holyoke’s average scores?

I was not discussing the correlation between college grades and scores. I was assuming that those not submitting scores are doing so bc their test scores were below average in one or more sections. This does not mean that an accepted student can’t do just as well as someone who scored higher. I was not talking about college gpa in my original post at all.