Where are the best matches for my child? [international, 3.95, swimming athlete, environmental science]

One last comment. A 1480 SAT is 99th percentile. I realize for this list it’s at or under 25th percent.

I would look at each school independently.

Pomona, in their common data set, says a test is considered. Last year they show a 53% submitted rate.

Dartmouth rates it very important. I can’t find data on % submitted.

Stanford also says very important and had 72% submit. They likely want to see it.

So to me Pomona is a better chance than Stanford TO.

At least it’s a hypothesis…not sure if valid but something to think about.

You might also ask schools if they can provide acceptance rates for TO be non TO. they likely won’t but you never know or they might tell you unofficially.

You may want to figure out where it matters more and apply to those schools where it’s de emphasized if you ultimately don’t submit.

Edit - your latest list has different school sizes and locales. Can you study curriculums? Based on locales they might have different specialties of interest. That’s how you can cut three.

Edit #2 - not an exact similarity but you may find some useful nuggets in this thread.

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