Well the majority of most selective schools are test required now. Top scores/top grades w/ rigor |
I believe 50% of the T25 is still test optional? Do they math. Princeton, Penn, Northwestern, Duke, UChicago, Columbia, Rice, Vanderbilt, ND, Michigan, WashU, Emory are all TO for next cycle. Not even touching UCLA/UCB or USC. Not even getting into "most selective" SLACs (Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Pomona) - because, well, you know the answer. |
Some of them don't count as "most" selective. Penn is test required now. Rice is test recommended, essentially test required for unhooked. Emory always loves to see a high scorer. That leaves Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, UChicago, Columbia, Vanderbilt, ND, WashU. Eight schools. 1/3. I am not counting public schools. |
And that means Applicant numbers will surge even greater at those schools as more and more are test required. |
There is no way Princeton remains the only Ivy test optional. It looks bad. |
That's why Columbia stays on the list. |
Princeton cares not at all about how it looks. |