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[quote=Anonymous]Test-optional policies increased uncertainty in college admissions. Period.

There was always a good deal of uncertainty for highly-selective schools. What is more difficult to accept is the uncertainty at schools less selective than those. The yield protection (yes, there has always been yield protection; there's more now).

Published score ranges helped kids decide where to apply and how to categorize the schools on their list into reaches, matches, and safeties.

Colleges use algorithms to predict who will attend. The algorithms always included score. Test optional policies were, and still are, a big problem for the algorithms. Test optional applicants are more likely to yield. The algorithms have struggled to accurately predict who might attend. Instead of simply admitting 5 or 10 or however many high-scoring applicants needed to get one to enroll, the student gets denied.

Enrollment managers need to take a closer look at their own work, which leaves a lot to be desired.[/quote]

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