The misguided David Leonhardt: good writing, but if misses the solution to underrepresented students who “would have done well” but didn’t take the test: advise them to opt for the test. It isn’t to mandate it for all, since that pushes down an even larger number. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b...
Indeed, many students who opted out only opted not to report their scores, which is a competitive strategy. Just get them to take the test and give good advice on whether to opt to include it in an application. The math almost always looks at only part of the pipeline and not overall effects.
This is emblematic of educational testing debates for 50+ years - just putting on blinders about the overall effects of pipelines. Now that thinking has been imported into AI fairness and decision-making.