If you get a 36/1600, of course you submit to a T20. But what about lower scores? What’s the lowest score that a person should still submit?
Whatever scores fall in their top 75 percentile.
That’s a tough question.
Some depends on your major. Engineering likely has higher #s than say English.
Some depends on if you’re above the 25h or 50th percentile. I saw what @jpga13 wrote and there are some who believe this.
Others believe if you’re in range (like 25th percent). - it shows that you can deliver a solid score vs. having to apply TO.
Some of it is demographic related…a first gen or URM can go lower.
You need to provide more info including your major, schools and score - and we can give you our “guesses” but there’s no “right” answer…the “right” answer is what you’re comfortable with.
My daughter submitted her 32 everywhere except Rice. She was rejected but had she submitted the score she likely would have been.
Her 32 was in range of other scores who turned her down - but even if a little low, she was proud and to her it was important to submit - and that was a personal decision. And I doubt it got her rejected, just like if she was a point higher, she likely wouldn’t gotten in.
So this can go a lot of ways.
It depends. If your standardized test score is much lower than the school would expect for you, don’t submit it. For example, a student with a high GPA/rank from a high school known to have high standards should not submit a low score. But let’s say you’re an underrepresented minority or student from a poor rural area, with a great GPA but from a school expected or known to have very low standards. In that case, your standardized test score that is below the 50th or even below the 25th% of the targeted college, still might look good to that college because they’d like to take the URM or poor rural student, and the standardized test score implies that the student is capable of doing the work at that college, even though it’s a little low for that college.
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