Appreciation is due Colin S. Diver, president of Reed College, who in the NYT criticizes “a new front…in the admissions arms race,” the growing trend to allow applicants to opt out of submitting their SAT or ACT scores. Diver defends standardized tests and points out that colleges who areloosening admissions standards are not acting in the interest of applicants. It is rare for a college president to speak out against his peers’ follies, but Diver does so, calling this concealment of applicants’ scores “willful blindness” and a practice “unworthy of the intellectual rigor” expected of higher education.