It’s also emboldened students to apply to colleges they wouldn’t have considered before. Test-blind schools, on the other hand, won’t take scores into consideration with their admissions decision, even if they’re submitted. While test-optional schools don’t require students to send their test scores, there’s nothing preventing an admissions officer from having a look if a student sends them-and that could potentially play a role in a decision. “Colleges didn’t want to lose out on applicants who would’ve taken the test but were unable to-or weren’t able to study in the ways they wanted to study,” Legatt says. “People who are white tend to do better on it and often have tutoring, test-prep and so on.” “Some studies show that the test is culturally biased,” says Legatt. Initially, it was to even the playing field for underrepresented and low-income students. “The idea behind it was twofold,” said Aviva Legatt, an Ardmore resident and founder of Ivy Insight, a college admissions consulting group. Now though, most colleges and universities in the United States are test-optional-at least for the time being. Some schools had already dropped the testing requirement before COVID-19.
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