Berkeley Dropping The GRE

[JannikT]

The whole point has nothing to do with academics.  The GRE provides a reasonably blind comparison of student ability when they come from dissimilar backgrounds.  The point of getting rid of the GRE is to allow schools to discriminate and be less obvious.  They don't want to be sued like Harvard for punting Asian students.  Universities used to discriminate to keep down the number of Jewish students.  Bob Dylan was wrong when he said, "The Times they are a changin."  The targets change but the idiots in charge of the asylum simply want to retain the ability to discriminate.  Did I say that?

I guess one could argue that this has always been about protecting seats for non-Jewish White students, but Ivy Plus schools are already doing this by favoring legacy applicants, athletes (most of which are not Black at Ivy Plus schools), children of employees, and children of wealthy donors. Harvard won their case, by the way. If the Ivy Plus schools were to admit students based on merit, alone, the majority of seats that would open up for Asian students would come from White applicants who would have been admitted otherwise. This can be seen in the University of California system where Asian students are far overrepresented based on their percentage of the general population because the UC system is more based on merit. White students are grossly underrepresented.

This change is not about preserving the proportion of white students. It is the exact opposite.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-year.html

Ivy league colleges are aiming at increasing the proportion of black and hispanic students, and mostly at the expense of white students. This in order to make these places more "diverse". 
As the article explains, white people in the US make up about 60% of the population, but are only 40% of present enrolment at Ivy league. Even when adjusting demographically for different age distributions, white students are significantly underrepresented.
Affirmative action is a real thing.