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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the most selective colleges, SAT/ACT are the best predictors of college achievement. This isn't just a MIT/Dartmouth/Yale thing. In a paper released over the summer and authored by economists from Harvard and Brown, they said the same thing. The paper was about the advantages an elite education provides a student. [/quote]

It only took MIT one? school year from the initial Covid test optional class (HS class of 2021) to clearly see that test scores are important to predict how well students will do at their institution where every student must complete certain math and science classes. I bet a bunch of test optional admits in the MIT class of 2025 struggled greatly in their first year. Probably more than historical averages for them to pivot so quickly away from TO. [/quote]

MIT looked back at historical data, they did not make the decision based on one TO year.  Purdue uses the same justification when it went back to test required and noted that grade inflation had made grades less predictive.[/quote]

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