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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Yale’s test required makes the most sense. If you’ve got 5s in calc and English lit, why do I care about your sat score exactly?

I’m also confused by CMC’s decisions, seeing that the faculty recommended test optional a week before recommending a test required college. It seems like they don’t actually have any plan or reasoning, and they just want to follow likely conservative/donor pressure. Note that CMC hardly gets applications and this is gonna torpedo their count even worse. They are trying to shred a bro culture, have a pretty long, annoying application, and are competing with the other Claremont colleges.[/quote]

Unlike some other LACs like Bowdoin, CMC used to be test required until the pandemic. They got roughly the same # of applications then as they do now. Their new policy will hit in 2 years. It seems the vote from faculty followed a new report that examined grades from students who were test optional and test submitted. The faculty voted almost 2:1 in favor of returning to their pre-covid testing requirements following an analysis of that.
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Most LACs were test required until the pandemic. [b]I don’t see any source indicating a report examining grades[/b], so I’d like to know where you got that from.

CMC has very few students submitting test scores and the ones who do are on average submitting test scores that are nearly 200 points higher than prior to Covid. They’re not going to get applications.[/quote]

This was shared with students: "A confidential report examining the relationship between admitted students’ test scores and CMC grades was presented to the faculty." Faculty voted in favor of reverting back to test required in January 2025 by a vote of 53-24. That was later approved by SVP of Admissions, President, trustees, etc and will be effective for class entering 2028 (so they're still TO this year and next).[/quote]

Not so confidential anymore.[/quote]

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