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Their wordsStandardized testing is glorious, but many standardized tests royally suck.
Their wordsFirst and foremost: Perfect scores should be vanishingly rare. Instead of clumping the best candidates together, you should be able to clearly distinguish the 99th percentile from the 99.9th, 99.99th, and so on.
Their wordsWokeness is the obvious answer. There are many lines of defense in the War Against Merit.
Their wordsSo a lot of the problem is mere herding: If every other top engineering program is using the GRE, it’s too weird to require a different test even if the alternative test is a far superior selection mechanism.