@ivy_roadmap: IT’S BAAAAAAAACK!!!! 🥳🐲💪 Test optional was a failed experiment in education policy, where colleges pretended that it was possible to compare students who attended different high schools based on their high school grades. You don’t need a PhD to know that that’s total BS, you just need some basic common sense. Do you know why every other country on earth has a standardized test for college admission? It’s because it works. Because at the end of the day, you need to provide a fair, consistent standard for students to prove their academic abilities before you admit them to elite academic institutions. None of this is novel, but for many years, we had to listen to complete imbeciles drone on about how they are “geniuses” except for when you bothered to test them. In the meantime, Ivy League colleges admitted an entire generation of unqualified applicants and had to introduce remedial math classes, teaching basic high school math for the first time. What an embarrassment. Thankfully, schools like Dartmouth took the plunge when it still was unpopular, brought back the SAT and sanity, along with it and pave the way for the rest of the Ivy League colleges to pull their heads out of the sand. With Columbia going back to requiring the exam, perhaps all of the fake college influencers who promoted test optional policies Will apologize for misleading their audiences. I doubt that we’ll see it, but it’s a good clarifying question to know who the real experts are. #ivyleague #admissions #columbia #sat #required

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚜†𝚎𝚛 :

Nobody should be judged solely by their intelligence based on a test that forces everyone into the same standard. It's not fair. If American colleges want to evaluate a student's academic ability, they should offer multiple forms of standardized testing so students can demonstrate their strengths in different ways. And before anyone says I'm just coping, this is coming from someone who scored a 1230 on the SAT, a 34 on the ACT, and earned 5s on all 13 AP exams I've taken.

L 🧸 :

Good thing I’m class of 27

ㅤ :

Princeton is test optional too

aden0915 :

Every school in America should be test mandatory

tiktokcuckooclock1 :

Please add that SAT does not predict who will become the most successful after college.

Zako Official :

But it is hard to pay for SAT in countries like mine where access to USD is highly exclusive

starxo.vs :

wow watch nyu do this too

ariėl🧜🏽‍♀️🌺 :

Thank God i’m ‘27!! The current rising senior class is the last senior class to be test optional ( so those applying this fall are the last ones to be test optional)

shonwick_ :

NO WTFFFFFF NOOOOOO

Othello zzzz :

Holistic admission doesn’t work I guess

bella :

Can you submit the ACT?

palestine oph'rlin,e :

so in those schools as an international student,, i cant get in because i don't have SAT or tests,,yet i can't afford tests due to finances 😭

krxshivvv 🤙 :

No my country doesn’t do sats

Naz :

What about the I.B. Exams, I earned a perfect score on the SAT’s however the IB exams were impossible for me!

𝐒 𝐄 𝐎 𝐔 𝐋 :

Princeton too right?

Kabir Patel :

cannon :

Can you submit ACT?

yuval ⸆⸉ :

Extraordinarily rare Columbia W

- :

when is columbias waitlist going to come out bro 🫩

🦋 :

AHHHHHHH WHY WHY WHY WHY 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

nah :

NOOO I WAS PLANNING TO APPLY THERE AS A TRANSFER NEXT MARCH😭

yuval ⸆⸉ :

Thank GOD

Christian :

thoughts on washu’s new admission changes?

jakescotty43 :

When will the UC schools do it?

Zaddy :

Yeah, My gpa was so low cause i never did homework during my bender but I would consistently score 97-99% percentile on standarized tests