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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Live in LA and have kids at private school. Last year maybe 20% of kids did SAT/ACT. This year the school stopped having the kids to PSAT their Jr year. It is just going away out here.

20% of kids in CA took SAT in 2022. It was almost 70% a few years ago. [/quote]

If anything, you’re directionally highlighting how the pandemic reduced the number of administrations. Not sure where you sourced those figures, but it doesn’t really matter anyway.

Top students in California will continue to take the ACT and/or the SAT, and the students who don’t test well will continue to hope and pray that the test blind and test optional pathways into good schools continue to exist.

The idea of applying to a non-UC T25 school without an ACT or SAT score, knowing there are at least 10x the number of applicants with perfect, rigorous grades than there are applicants with perfect test scores AND that some of the competing applicants are going to be bringing a 36 or a 1600 to the party - I mean, all other things equal, good luck.[/quote]

You are missing the big picture…CA has 7 UC schools ranked higher than nearly every other flagship across the country…they have Cal State options that provide strong options.

I bet if UVA, VT, WM, UMD, PITT, Penn State…and then list 15 other schools that folks discuss on this board…if they were all test blind, you would see way fewer DMV kids take tests as well.  That is what CA offers its residents.[/quote]

Great point [/quote]

Th[b]e UC and CSU systems were flooded with over 1.5 million applications last year. [/b]There are not enough seats to fill even 10% of those individuals.

Now that the “bad test taker” crowd has been heard, everyone just gets a lottery ticket.

Some may call that progress. And if your kid is a bad test taker, I guess it seems that way in the short term. But for the rest of us, it’s an unfortunate step in the wrong direction.[/quote]

And top students would want UCLA or Berkeley and those are very tough admits.  So they have to apply outside the UC system which means they need to take tests and get top scores.[/quote]

That is not true…top students who want/need in state tuition will go down an extensive list that goes well beyond those two schools.[/quote]

I have two kids in public HS in Los Angeles. There are 7 schools in the UC system we consider worthwhile. The UC system guarantees a place for the top 8% of students. [/quote]

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