"In a recent article exploring the benefits and drawbacks of having SAT scores play a role in college admissions, Teen Vogue reporter Charlotte West notes that ‘[c]olleges with test-optional policies often see more diversity in their incoming classes.’
Bowdoin College, which has been test-optional since 1969, was the first in the United States not to require SAT scores as part of its application. ‘Now our applicant pool comes from all over the world,” Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule told the magazine. “We have more diversity of all kinds — geographic, socioeconomic, racial, ethnic.’" …