Honestly, I feel like the whole “test-optional” thing is fake. If a school wants to keep its prestige, they’ll accept kids with the ssat just to make sure they can take a test. I was on a zoom with a BS AO and he said that they’d much rather accept someone with the ssat but not have as good extracurriculars as opposed to someone with no ssat and a few good extracurriculars. They’re really just saying no ssat required to get more money on application fees.