I think an important thing to note is that the university of California Academic Senate (not exactly a body that is seeking to overthrow liberal narratives) conducted a review on the effects of eliminating the SAT, and concluded that eliminating the SAT would disadvantage non-asian minorities. They then voted unanimously to keep standardized testing, but were overruled by the UC regents, who made their decision based on no evidence at all, resulting in UC dropping standardized tests.

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/committees/sttf/