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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When half of the class are TO, you won't be any different from half of the class.  You sort of do fine.

The right comparison is the put a TO kid in a test required school.  Then ask the question how they are doing there.  It would be tough.
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There’s no harder curriculum between a test required and test optional school. You really think Florida Institute of Technology and University of Tennessee Southern have more difficult curriculums than Princeton and Carnegie Mellon? You’re delusional.[/quote]

It may not be the curriculum.  It's the difference in peers and the competition you TO kids would face in different schools.  When half of the class are TO, your TO kids are competing with half of class being TO who are less competent.  When it's test required, your TO kids are facing a lot tougher competition.

It is also possible that, in TO schools, professors may have to water down the curriculum when a large number of the TO kids cannot follow what they teach.  We hear a lot of complain from the professors these days, and Harvard initiated the remedial math class.[/quote]

None of this is true.

You're putting too much emphasis one and standardized test.

80%+ of colleges don't.[/quote]

Six out of eight ivies are test required.
The majority of T20 are test required, for a reason.[/quote]

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