Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows

Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday December 18, 2021 @04:30PM (#29608714)

UW is still a state school controller indirectly and sometimes directly by the state government. The reason the Easter WA quota exists is a because of its charter. The administrators at UW can express whatever opinion they want but don’t rule by fiat, it would take probably a state legislative vote to implement the quota you imagine exists.

College admission officers don’t get access to race and such when reviewing applications. Yes, they can add points to it, but that happens after the rest of the application is reviewed, and can’t be done without explicitly saying they are doing it.

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Re:Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-opt... by petilon on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:57PM (#29610929)

Because of "holistic review", admissions are subjective, which means admission officers can do whatever they want. Admission officers do have access to race, why else is it on applications?

Read the NYT story I linked to, to understand how application readers are gently guided to consider race, without explicitly being told to do so.

Excerpt from the story:

"I received an e-mail from the assistant director suggesting I was not with the program: “You’ve got 15 outlier, which is quite a lot."

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