To Submit, or Not to Submit: Any "Lessons Learned" for the Class of 23?

Everyone agrees to submit a 1500.

In general, I would differ from some of the above opinions on when to submit. I would submit above 25th percentile (using pre-TO enrolled student score ranges). 75th is far too high a bar in my view.

The MIT thread had some interesting thoughts from an admissions officer. They treated score as a threshold level to show the student was sufficiently capable. Higher than the threshold wasn’t going to help the applicant, as the application review moved on to other factors. (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/t/mit-reinstates-act-sat-test-requirement/, well worth a read) While other highly-selective schools may well use scores differently than MIT does, it seems to me that a score smack in the middle (let’s say 40th percentile) clearly shows the student would fit academically at a school.

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