When schools admit by GPA alone, as UT does via GPA-based class rank, this is what happens:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0
Students w high GPAs from low rigor HSs, needing remedial education to stay afloat. But the MOST IMPORTANT thing is that the colleges get to meet their SJW diversity goals.
“Test optional” is the emperor wearing no clothes.