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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]40% of Cornell is probably hooked if you add up legacy, first gen, URM, and athletic admits.  A few years ago, 30% of the Harvard class was legacy.[/quote]

40% of 15k undergrads? What?!?

You guys are insane. Do some research on what colleges at Cornell are TO before spewing this stupid stuff.[/quote]

Exactly. People really really want TO not to be real.[/quote]

Not as much as some people REALLY REALLY REALLY want standardized testing to never return!

The TO era has unleashed a tidal wave of applications from fresh faced 4.00 u/w students who test poorly, but only on Saturday mornings.[/quote]

TO is disliked by families that are okay with hard work and believe in fair treatment, not the new BS equity that favors some groups over others.

I don't understand folks that complain bitterly about hooks like legacy, athlete, etc. and don't mind TO when those kids can skate in even easier now.[/quote]

Eh not really. When tests were not optional, schools were just straight out ignoring the lower scores of legacies and athletes. The test scores didn't matter for those kids then, and they still don't matter now.[/quote]

Yup. This is the reality. Test scores only ever mattered when AOs wanted them to. They could always ignore low scores for a kid they wanted.[/quote]

Not true at all. Colleges have to report to rankings services. Test optional relieves them of that and allows colleges to engage in more social engineering without accountability for test scores. That’s why colleges want iy[/quote]

Test scores are not that important anymore to shape a class. I wouldn't be surprised if USNWR lowered its weighting for test scores or removed them altogether in the future.[/quote]

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