The share of college applicants who submit test scores has plunged since pre-pandemic times. Fewer than half of early applicants this fall submitted scores from the SAT or ACT, despite loosening COVID ...

Much of the opposition to standardized tests stems not from the idea that they don’t work but from the realization that they ...

The event in Mudd Hall was the latest in the Speak Free USC series, which previously hosted a discussion on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, after the University refused to ...

C olleges should scrutinize their standardized-testing requirements and determine whether those policies serve the public good. They should regularly assess the extent to which ACT and SAT scores help ...

S tandardized testing’s stranglehold over college admissions is breaking. The inability of millions of students to sit for the SAT and ACT exams in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has pushed ...

After four years of a test-optional policy, Yale University has reinstated its standardized test requirement for first-year and transfer applicants. The policy will be in effect for prospective ...

Dartmouth College will once again require standardized college admissions tests in order to be admitted to the school, a reversal for the Ivy League school that was one of a thousand schools that made ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. What do President Trump and the nation’s colleges and universities have in common? They both think ...

Today Yale became the fifth Ivy League school to adopt a test-optional policy for the class of undergraduates who will be applying for admission in the fall of 2021. It joins Cornell, Columbia, ...

Efforts to remove college admissions tests such as the ACT and SAT from application requirements are gaining momentum this year, with more than half of four-year universities offering to make the ...

A landmark California lawsuit prohibiting the nine-campus University of California system (Berkeley, UCLA, etc.) from using the SAT or ACT next year has changed the discussion of equity in admissions, ...