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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why this was deleted.  Maybe because I pasted the particle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/briefing/the-misguided-war-on-the-sat.html

When I have asked university administrators whether they were aware of the research showing the value of test scores, they have generally said they were. But several told me, not for quotation, that they feared the political reaction on their campuses and in the media if they reinstated tests. “[b]It’s not politically correct,[/b]” Charles Deacon, the longtime admissions dean at Georgetown University, which does require test scores, has told the journalist Jeffrey Selingo.

MIT
Without test scores, Schmill explained, admissions officers were left with two unappealing options. They would have to guess which students were likely to do well at M.I.T. — and almost certainly guess wrong sometimes, rejecting qualified applicants while admitting weaker ones. Or M.I.T. would need to reject more students from less advantaged high schools and admit more from the private schools and advantaged public schools that have a strong record of producing well-qualified students.

“Once we brought the test requirement back, we admitted the most diverse class that we ever had in our history,” Schmill told me. “Having test scores was helpful.” [/quote]

2 colleges. Cute. There are thousands that are test optional or test blind.

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For now.   We'll see if things change.   A lot of the "test optional" started during Covid, because many students in  the high school class of 2021 really didn't have much opportunity to take SAT/ACT tests.   Slowly, some schools are requiring it again (yes, more than just two.)
About a year ago we did a campus tour of a school where the admissions officer [b]said that the SAT/ACT wasn't really didn't matter [/b]because "it's just your zipcode."   My kid was really turned off by that and didn't apply.[/quote]

quoting my own post here.   That should have said "said that the SAT/ACT really didn't matter..."  that "wasn't" shouldn't be there.[/quote]

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