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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None. The most selective ones (Williams, Amherst) have an absurd percentage of athletes and have no incentive to go test required. [/quote]

I think that's correct. Schools where more than a third of students are athletes - Bowdoin, Amherst, Bates, Colby, Haverford, Swarthmore, Williams, etc - are never going back to test mandatory. And some SLACs - Pomona, Oberlin, a few others - have made TO a kind of political or ideological red line.

But as more and more selective universities - Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, Texas - go back to test mandatory with others sure to follow in the next year or two, it seems likely that SLACs will take a reputational hit for remaining TO.  [/quote]

I'm not sure why people are mentioning the % athletes here as a legitimate reason. The administrations at D3 schools are not keeping things TO due to athletic recruiting. You think the athletic departments have WAY more power than they actually do if you believe that is the case. The high-academic schools are not suddenly significantly better athletically in the TO era either. One of the schools (though not a SLAC) that has already gone back to requiring tests, MIT, is well known for significant D3 athletic assistance in admissions. The top SLACs would be fine athletically if they go back to requiring tests, just like MIT will be.

Posters are also confusing the number of students on teams with the number getting some admissions assistance as a recruit, multiple schools mentioned don't have 1/3+ recruited athletes. Schools listed like Haverford and Swarthmore don't have football at all and don't have full rosters of recruited athletes.[/quote]

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