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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colgate says they have benefitted from it, and so does every other school that has found a (perhaps temporary) formula for jacking up the application numbers and driving down the admission rates. But I'm not sure that the new era of test score non-reporting and 25-applications-per-student is really a step in the right direction. MIT has already reverted to test-mandatory. I think other highly selective schools will follow. "Holistic" admissions sounds good in principle, but think about the realities of wading through an extra 10,000 applications at a school the size of Colgate, with about the same staff numbers. Many of those applications will be from kids with very high GPAs; 3.9 - 4.0, but who would have or did score below 1200-1300 on the SAT. Will they be able to do Colgate-level work? Today's political climate is such that the tests have been branded racist, classist, bad predictors of academic performance, and worse. But they're not. The U. Cal regents last year dropped standardized tests in the face of evidence presented by the system-wide faculty senate, showing that the tests (SAT or ACT) were the best predictor of future academic performance. But the SJWs and their amen chorus among the Regents wouldn't hear of it, and the tests were jettisoned. Good luck with that. While Colgate and most other high-end schools are still test-optional, the new free-for-all climate will, at least for a while, make it more difficult for those schools to select the best class possible. The fact that their admission rates are way down may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. Time will tell.[/quote]

Or a Pyorrhea victory.[/quote]

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