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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need flexibility for athletic recruits and other institutional priorities. Swarthmore admits a very high percentage of non-white/Asian and FGLI students.[/quote]
This is the real reason (plus the very bad optics of potentially being the only top SLAC that’s test required). Swarthmore recruits more first-gen than any other SLAC I am aware of. Posters assuming the real reason for this decision is a lack of correlation between academic performance in college and students’ SATs are drinking the Kool-Aid.

In fact, it is more revealing than anything that Swat put off this decision for so long: [b]the correlation must be huge — or they would not have even considered it.[/b][/quote]

Depending on the major.  For humanities, TO admits might do just fine or might excel.  For engineering or premed, TO admits will be weeded out.  [/quote]
The dirty little secret is that first-gen kids are the [i]least[/i] likely to study humanities; they live and die (for somewhat understandable reasons) for something "practical." [/quote]

Then why hide the scores?[/quote]
The first-gen kids have lower scores. Duh. It is almost 1 in 3 admits…[/quote]

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