It seems like many universities (especially Ivy league schools) who made testing optional during the pandemic did so for logistical reasons: they couldn't ask s

It seems like many universities (especially Ivy league schools) who made testing optional during the pandemic did so for logistical reasons: they couldn't ask students to sit in a big room with a hundred other kids to take a test. I can't say whether COVID provided cover for the motives you list above, but the proximate reason given was sufficient. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/coronavirus-sat-act-admission/2020/06/15/18c406dc-acca-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/coronavirus-s...