I agree with this (I dont have any opposition). I just want to add that context is very important. You know, Yale could easily in minutes put a list of all students who didn’t submit their SAT Subject Tests and just decide, “Hey, these kids are definitely dubious.” But it doesn’t work that way. Students are evaluated on the basis of their own applications and what they have submitted, not what they haven’t. To this day people still cannot believe Matt McGann of MIT (and other AOs) who only checks test scores to see if students can do the job.
After all, if the kid from a southern state from a school whose majority do not go to college (I don’t even know if they can define the SAT or ACT in first place) got into Harvard, is there a better example???