08/23/2026
The test optional fantasy has come to an end. A bunch of low performers on the SAT/ACT pushed colleges to abandon objective measures of aptitude and assume everyone can learn equally fast. That myth was always false but this experiment has destroyed the careers of untold students and prevented capable others of competing at elite institutions.
The real question is whether political hacks (line former Democrat cabinet member and University of California leader) Janet Nepalitano will be forever barred from making any substantive policy ever again. When people so catastrophically make obvious horrendous decisions, there must be consequences. Not to punish the crazy politician looking to score points, but to save kids and the public from their harm.
A Berkeley professor attacked the University of California system's "test-blind" policies as calamitous, noting students were arriving on campus unable to do basic math.