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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could some of this issue (or most of it) be caused by the test optional trend of the last 4 years?

I imagined if you were an average or slightly above average student with an inflated GPA who got into one of these intense schools via test optional, starting behind everyone else from the get go would be very stressful and demoralizing.[/quote]

No, I don’t think so, but those opposed to test-optional policies are happy to try to use it as the cause for many long-standing problems in higher ed. Many of the comments to the video are from people who’ve already graduated so they would not have been test optional. These hyper-selective schools have been like this for a long time. I have a few friends who are professors or work in advising students at Hopkins and they all say that the students are miserable. This current generation is, however, more open to talking about mental health challenges- especially because many know they aren’t alone anymore. Or they’ve seen their friends go off the deep end. [/quote]

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