I have been on admissions committees and there is of course the possibility in your mind that students who did not submit scores probably had bad ones. I certai

I have been on admissions committees and there is of course the possibility in your mind that students who did not submit scores probably had bad ones. I certainly prefer having scores. But when tests are optional, plenty people will also just want to save the $50 or whatever it costs to take the thing. Particularly from poorer families. So you can't be sure and hate to reject a super candidate on this reason alone. Also there's always some people in admissions who are adamantly anti-test anyway. They do look deeper into the high school's reputation and individual course grades to make up the missing info that the test would have provided.