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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top colleges are perfectly fine with test optional.
They will get "the best" students which meet the academic standards and institutional needs.

The graduation rates for T25 and such will remain high. Even when the SAT was mandatory, graduation rates were never 100%.

When a state like CA with a large population of prospective students each year is test blind ( think about that for a second); thousands of colleges have been TO going on 4 years; HYSP ( with Harvard through calendar year 2026!) still TO; and an Ivy League school like Columbia being permanently TO, my friends, the cake has been baked.

Colleges will not go back to mandatory standardized testing en masse, including the elite colleges.

There will  hundreds of opinions whether that's good or not, but it is what it is. Each family will need to determine what's best for their kid's college admissions prospects. 
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This 1000 percent!  Colleges, save a few specialty ones (ie.  MIT) have determined that they can adequately craft a class with TO.  They want to have a class that is more than just 1550+ and 4.0+, 12+ APs, etc.  Whether you agree with this or not, this is the future at most schools.  
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I’m the “text flexible” PP, and I agree. But I also think a few top schools are going to go back to some sort of testing requirement. Brown is sending pretty clear signals; they have a committee looking at test policies, ED, and legacy, and they’re supposed to announce decisions in the spring. The president has made multiple statements about how helpful testing is in the admissions process. My prediction is that Brown returns to some sort of testing requirement (with a strong message about submitting test scores that are good in your HS context rather than looking at CDS averages), kills ED (hardest to defend from an equity standpoint), and keeps legacy (hardest to get rid of from a fundraising standpoint, and they can spin it as important for developing community and connection, how it’s now benefiting a more diverse range of students, etc).[/quote]

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