Should I Retake The SAT?

mynameiswhatever
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:18:07 +0000

Mwfan1921:

No, test optional means test optional. I have every confidence at the highly selective schools that there will be no second guessing about why someone didn’t send a test score.

@Mwfan1921: by no means am I disputing what you’re saying, as I really don’t know. But many students ARE going to be taking tests and submitting (a) if they are required to; and/or (b) their scores are stellar.

Just keeping in mind MIT and Princeton as OP mentioned, lots of students are going to be submitting test scores. Isn’t it basic instinct that an AO would wonder? I appreciate what is on paper is one thing, but if I were confronted with an application, if I see something that was an option that wasn’t taken, I do question why it wasn’t taken.

Again, I really don’t know. I’m just wondering about how a policy can override human nature.