Columbia permanently drops SAT/ACT requirement [i.e. test optional]

[mtmind]

That poster didn’t make the claim either. Their claim was that MIT didn’t accept many, not any. I think the point was valid, and you certainly haven’t refuted it.

@1NJParent

I can understand why some opponents of standardized testing want to show that MIT had little or no intention to accept any test non-submitters and its analysis that led to its decision to require test scores again is faulty because it didn’t accept those students to begin with and therefore couldn’t do the analysis properly. But that’s their belief.

It seems you are inferring intentions here to suit your position, but I don’t think it is the supposed “opponents of standardized testing” (that’s not how I would describe myself) who are manipulating what MIT has done here.

Speaking for myself only, I am just going by what MIT has indicated. MIT has been abundantly clear that its decision to require tests has nothing do do with their admissions results of the past couple years. Here is @MITChris directly addressing the issue on the MIT reinstates ACT/SAT test requirement thread:

@MITChris

think many have the misconception that MIT experimented with TO and that it was a failure, but that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

Yes, it is a very unfortunate misreading of the scenario. I don’t know how we could have been clearer in our post(s) that this was about the pandemic, and that it was nothing about the admits from the last two years. So it goes.

So according to @MITChris, the decision was nothing about the admits from the past few years. If you think he has it wrong, you should contact him and correct him.