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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Test optional exists solely to allow colleges to continue their practice of soft racial quotas in the face of potential restrictions on affirmative action.  Its is unambiguously good for URMs, unambiguously bad for high stats white and Asian kids, and kind of a wash for low-stats kids who now have a small chance of getting lucky going TO but face a lot more uncertainty. [/quote]

I don’t think this is true.  How do you square that with the fact that many top SLACs have had test optional for years before Covid and it has not impacted their quality or selectivity?  Bowdoin is an example but there are others.[/quote]

What’s your basis for the claim that going test optional does not decrease quality? Unless you believe that test results correlate zero or negatively with student quality, the expected outcome of TO would be to reduce student quality, not increase it.  [/quote]

There have been schools doing it for decades.  My example of Bowdoin is illustrative.  They are still too notch and very selective.

Also, schools have done studies (was it Wake?) that showed very little difference since the pandemic.

The standardized tests show a baseline but they are easily prepped and gamed and people can take them many, many times to get the superscore they want.  I agree they have some value to separate out those completely unprepared for college, but in the higher ranges, they are not meaningful.  People put way too much emphasis on 20 or so point differences  on the SAT.  Any decent prep class can show you how to strategize to gain more than that amount.  They are not useless, just not meaningful enough for the emphasis they have.[/quote]

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