standardized tests. >> so was i. >> also below the mendoza line. i am wondering to be fair, what is the common dominator? le how do they compare this, how do they compare one student from one school district and another from another district? they can't possibly be knowledgeable about every school district in the country. what do they do? >> even before they went test-optional, these schools looked mostly at a high school student's records. in other words, the courses they took and the grades they got in those courses. because four years in high school was more important than four hours on a test. so what they're really looking for is the context of that high school. what they get with every application what's called a high school profile. so, yes, they don't know everything about every high school. but the fact of the matter, particularly, at selective schools, they get a number of