Like Granitegirl I wanted to post TO results to help future applicants see how that fares in relation to submission of test scores, but I posted in the TO thread, so here’s a link:
Test Optional Results
I’m going to write this in general terms so as not to make my kid identifiable. Main intent of this post is to add a data point regarding test optional outcomes. I’m not going to provide state of origin, race, ECs. Generally, kid was top 5% with high rigor.
Here’s the tl;dr: safeties 1/1, matches 4/4, reaches 1/13.
Category 1: HPYSM:
Applied to 4, rejected 4
Category 2: Next tier top private schools - rest of Ivies plus top 4 LAC (A,W, Swat, Pom), Caltech, Northwestern, Duke, U Chicago, Vandy, WUSTL, Rice, ND, Georgetown, etc:
Applied to 6, rejected 4, WL 2
Category 3: Tippy top publics (Michigan, UCB, UCLA) all are OOS; note UCs are test-blind:
Applied to 3, accepted 1, WL 2
Category 4: Next tier public and similar largish private - Northeastern, CWRU, Wisconsin, McGill, Emory, Tulane, NYU, UVA, UCSD, CMU, USC, Tufts, etc:
Applied to 2, accepted 2
Category 5: SLACs ranked in 20-40 (USNWR) range:
Applied to 3, accepted 3, unsolicited merit money from a…
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