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I don't see how this can work in practice. At some point, you'll have an application with an SAT go up against an application without one for the same seat. Eit
by pc86 5y ago
I don't see how this can work in practice. At some point, you'll have an application with an SAT go up against an application without one for the same seat. Either a really good SAT score will push that one up (meaning not submitting an SAT score hurts application #2) or the score is ignored, meaning it doesn't actually help to include it.
- lazyasciiart 5y agoExaggerating here for ease of description: it used to be that if you had 2 spots and these 3 applicants - applicant A: average grades, average SAT, no sports - applicant B: great grades, no SAT, great sports - applicant C: great grades, great SAT, great sports then B wasn't even considered. Now, B will probably get in over A.
- unclebucknasty 5y ago>I don't see how this can work in practice. That's because the admissions process is not the line-by-line ranking exercise you're implying. In some cases an SAT may help to complete the picture of an applicant. In other cases, other attribute permutations are enough. Maybe #1 was close and the SAT sealed it. But, it's not necessarily the case that applicant #2 was hurt by not submitting their SAT (or would have fared any better by submitting even a perfect SAT score).