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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Cornell goes test optional to admit more, they’ll be going from their current status as soft ivy with 10%+ acceptance rate to mid-to-bottom 2nd tier national universities.

Harvard, Yale, Columbia can get away with it. Not Cornell. [/quote]
This is my thinking.  Even before coronavirus, apps were down slightly at many schools (possibly due to demographics).  The financial situation exacerbates a reduction in app numbers.  Colleges now have a bit of cover for going test optional to increase apps.  Plus, test optional makes them sound kind, and may be the right thing to do in any event, to the extent that the test date cancellations interfere with the ability of disadvantaged students to test, as indicated in Cornell's statement at the link.

I am interpreting the speed with which a school announces test optional as an indication of their concerns about their potential fall app numbers, in light of whatever is going on in their admission offices [i]this[/i] season for app numbers and potentially yield.

Among top 50s, Case went first and is a position to play an unfortunate second fiddle to colleges in more exciting locations, which makes sense.  I really hate to compare Ivies because I think parsing prestige at that level is silly hair-splitting, but it likewise makes sense that Cornell feels a bit of pressure from its particular position.

It'll be interesting to see how yield shakes out when those numbers begin to be reported in the fall, though I'm not sure all schools do so.[/quote]

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