Math Doesn’t Lie: Putting Pop Test-Taking Theories to a Simple Test
In the post-COVID, test-optional college admissions era, everyone seems to have a theory about college admissions. Here’s a small sampling based on what I’ve been hearing since the pandemic turned everything upside down: standardized tests don’t measure anything important, so committees aren’t counting them anymore; application numbers are actually DOWN at a lot of colleges, so don’t let the media make you crazy; and the vast majority of candidates don’t send scores in today’s college admissions game, so they can’t really be that important. It’s great fun and perhaps a helpful mental exercise when laypeople put on their thinking caps […]
