Right. . . but they also need other colleges to remove the requirement for the 2021 year for UC to follow by removing it for all subsequent years. And by UC shutting it down now doesn’t doesn’t allow a good number of safer ways to take the test.
Either way, UC would need some really selective colleges to remove the requirement in subsequent years, because what good would not requiring the testing be if effectively every other selective college still required it? Numerous apps to UC would still have students reporting the test(s).
I think it’s a little too early to put this information out. There are some students who’ve already taken the test(s) and there are possible ways around staying safe in the pandemic – hopefully the curve of new cases will have entered its downside (edit…) at least.