Bitter Irony in Test-Blind Admissions
Those in favor of test-optional and test-blind admissions tend to wax poetic about the need to abolish testing requirements in order to improve access and equity. I have previously written about how the latter belief is misguided (see here) and false (see here). But today I want to highlight one school in particular because the school and its head of admissions have declared themselves champions of test-blind admissions policies and harshly criticized colleges that do otherwise. That school is Worcester Polytechnic Institute with its head of admissions, Andrew Palumbo. He doesn’t hide his criticism of MIT for going back to