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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Maybe now eyes will be opened on the complete lack of standardization of grades. Sure everyone knows this, but it seems like colleges, and by extension some discussion here at DCUM, act as though we can compare them.[/quote]

Yes, colleges act as though they can compare them, because they can.

[quote=Anonymous]While I absolutely believe there is a small subset of very bright kids who have test issues (e.g. w/speed) such that scores do not indicate the status of their academic skills, there is a sense that most kids applying test optional are decent students with great grades but lower scores, and dwarf that group. I don't know how admissions would be able to tell the difference. [/quote]

Where is your evidence that any of this makes a difference in their performance at the colleges they are admitted to? Because you admit that you "don't know how", without it this is what is known as an argument from ignorance fallacy https://academy4sc.org/video/argument-from-ignorance-cant-prove-a-thing/.

[quote=Anonymous]I suppose I'm not a fan of the current test optional environment and wonder how admissions evolves from here, how many highly selective colleges will go back to requiring scores, or de facto requiring whether stated or not.[/quote]

They will do what they feel they need to do to build the class they want, as they always have.[/quote]

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