Looking back, I spent too much time worrying about my scores and not enough time making sure my essays reflected my unique achievements and skills. That's stil

Looking back, I spent too much time worrying about my scores and not enough time making sure my essays reflected my unique achievements and skills. That's still framed in the broken system in place now. Can your really tell someone enough about you in a 2-page essay for them to make an informed decision about your application? Test scores are just as bad, if not noisier, signals; they're just easy to grok numbers, so like one of the other posters mentioned, they come with implicit authority. That entire process is broken; we're not trying to sell another snake oil "what are my chances" calculator. There's real science behind what we're working on, and it's not a consulting service for the wealthy.