How long before Harvard's brand name fades?

No more standardized testing for Class of 25

In the same announcement, Harvard encouraged prospective students to submit accomplishments in regards to community involvement and high school achievements. However, it also said that “students who find themselves limited in the activities they can pursue due to the current coronavirus outbreak will not be disadvantaged as a result, nor will students who are only able to present pass/fail grades or other similar marks on their transcripts this spring.”

Harvard is not the first U.S. university to drop its standardized testing requirements. 

This is supposedly only a temporary measure and SAT and ACT scores will again be required once our media rulers declare the all-clear, but does anyone believe that? Schools were dropping objective testing requirements even before Kung Flu rumbled over the horizon because the tests were difficult for POCs, and their reimposition a few years from now seems unlikely.

It’s been a long time since an IVY League degree meant anything except that its holder was smart enough to get in — whether anything was learned in the four years following was irrelevant, and grade inflation made it impossible to tell anyway. Now, if all that will be required for admission is a superior record of social awareness in 10th Grade (forming LGTB support groups in high school has been particularly popular in the past decade), what’s to differentiate a community college psych major from a Harvard one?

I give the place twenty years.