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<p>Above is from Middlebury’s application requirements site.</p>
<p>franglish: I pointed out Middlebury’s (quasi) test-optional policy at the beginning of the thread (post #7). I guess it’s not of interest to the OP at this point.</p>
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I think this is a great way to approach showing that a lower score is not necessarily predictive of how well a student can do in actual college work.</p>
<p>But I do want to caution that it may not work in all cases or for the most selective schools. For example, my son had poor SATII scores (we didn’t know the simple idea of taking each SATII right after completion of the course; so, eg, his Chem score was poor even though he’s great in it - he was 1 year plus rusty). Anyway, my S had to transfer due to Katrina. He had completed 1 term (Katrina term) at a top LAC with wonderful grades (3.67 GPA in tough science courseload). He wrote a short essay on the point that aphilegacy is making, and obviously had great college coursework to prove the point. </p>
<p>He did get accepted to virtually every school where he applied. But not every school - ie, not the one he applied to at HYPS level. No one can say exactly why; but we think the scores were his weak point.</p>
<p>Higher scores may get the OP’s son higher in the pool, but given that they are only going to accept 1 out of 5 or so anyway, it is likely that he will be rejected at Middlebury in any case.</p>
<p>The exercise in raising the scores, or finding another test, might be worthwhile, but it isn’t likely the make-or-break characteristic of his application. The score might qualify him to get INTO the pool, but it won’t get him chosen OUT of the pool.</p>
<p>So regardless of the test strategy, he needs to 1) hone the characteristics that make him appear special; and 2) find some other schools. The second is much easier than the first.</p>