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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain why schools continue to be test optional when the research shows it doesn’t increase the number of URM students and the data published from the latest CDS’s from most T100 schools show that 30 to 50% of students were admitted test optional and statistically, there are not enough URM‘s to explain this difference? Meaning that the majority of tests optional students got in were non-URM’s. [/quote]

Because maybe that's not the reason they went TO. Its just what people assume is the reason. [/quote]

+1.  I'd say a big one is that tests were never more than a tie breaker, or first strike.  But explaining that to applicants is clearly much more trouble than it could ever be worth.  Sure who wouldn't want a scrap of paper that guarantees a spot, but it's never worked like that. Yet there's an entire testing industry stoking this belief. Needless to say that industry does target immigrants (and foreign applicants) from high stakes testing cultures.[/quote]

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