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<p>This is so interesting, mini, that your 2nd DD must be a unique test taker. To get a 1400-1500 out of 2400, she had to have lots of mistakes. Did she know the right answers but picked the wrong ones or timed test is a problem? Hard to imagine what was going on during a test. Very interesting.</p>
<p>Actually it was about 800 (so I exaggerated a little! LOL!) Don’t really know what goes on. (The practice tests weren’t much better). But give her CONTENT to study, and she gets A’s. (An almost 4.0 GPA doesn’t lie. And she is graduating in three years, having taken a massive course load.) </p>
<p>"Nobody is going to decline to waive their poor scores if the school is basically saying ‘let us pretend your scores don’t exist and you are in’. But why don’t all schools just waive scores of all low-score admits, and boost their magic numbers even more? "</p>
<p>Oh, they do, all the time. On the undergraduate level, I don’t think Columbia counts their GS students (who, some believe, are their most intelligent students.) Harvard doesn’t count their extension students, even though they graduate with Harvard degrees. I do have to say that I had never heard this happening with a graduate school before (it says on their site that they would waive test scores only for students with two years of full-time professional experience in the field.) I do think hers was perceived as a unique situation, and a tribute to her uncommon “intelligence”.</p>