Agreed that an across-the-board change to admissions policies like this is an opportunity to test the thesis, although the pandemic had many other confounding i

Agreed that an across-the-board change to admissions policies like this is an opportunity to test the thesis, although the pandemic had many other confounding impacts that may be hard to isolate. Still, I don't know anyone who works in higher ed admissions who wants to get rid of standardized testing for "restorative justice" reasons. Rigorous schools need to be able to ensure they don't admit students who have no hope of graduating and competitive schools need to winnow down the number of applications to a number that they can actually review. My impression is that the objections to standardized testing typically come from groups outside universities like the NEA, FairTest, teachers unions, parents, activists, etc.