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[quote=Anonymous]In today’s your college-bound kid podcast talking about the deal that Brown and Columbia struck with the Trump administration, there’s an argument to be made that some colleges should remain test optional and encourage students openly not to submit test scores because it gives universities more leeway in shaping the class, the way they want them to? Really interesting conversation in the roundtable.

“And one wonders, I think one of the questions that people are, people should be asking is that if you move away from test optional, which the universities, some really selective universities have been doing, then they leave themselves open to pressure from the Trump administration to release those numbers because now everyone's required to do them. Right now, Columbia about, well, I don't know if it was for this past year, but in 2024, about 60% of their admitted students submitted their test score. When you're test optional, you have the opportunity to look at other factors that are important.

And Brown is saying that if you're really far away from the average, or the mid-50%, there has to be some compelling evidence to take you because that is an important factor. I think the other thing that you're starting to see is that you're starting to see this push into admission at other selective university processes. You've seen even the Trump administration really go after specific targets, highly selective colleges that are really prominent in the Ivy League, and then a consistent battering of cities and universities in California.

Stanford, University of California, UCLA, Berkeley, and Irvine[…]”

From Your College Bound Kid | Admission Tips, Admission Trends & Admission Interviews: Brown and Columbia Share Race & Admissions Stats In Trump Deal, Aug 27, 2025[/quote]

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