>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 S

>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).