Sac State's bid for the Pac 12 Thread A roommate decades ago had a high GPA from a tony suburb, He was a junior studying ME, very sharp. His frosh girlfriend beat the drum about her 4.0 from a backwater Central Valley HS. He bit his tongue. She was subsequently slaughtered on her first set of midterms. The standardized tests were supposed to sort for this, and call out diamonds in the rough.
Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Georgetown, Caltech, and others are reinstating the objective tests.
Harvard College: "More information about an applicant, especially such strongly predictive information, can be valuable. Reinstating a testing requirement will bring important and consistent information back into the admissions process."