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 ...

When the novel coronavirus began to spread throughout the U.S., it upended numerous facets of higher education such as in-person instruction, the college admissions cycle and entrance exams such as ...

Julie Posselt, a professor of education and the author of “Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping,” said the responsibility of determining the goal of standardized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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What does test optional mean? Applicants will have the choice to select if they wish to have their ACT (with or without the Science section) or SAT scores considered when Loyola reviews their ...

Janet Godwin, ACT's CEO, published a blog post Thursday that admitted that test-optional admissions policies are likely here to stay. "It is somewhat unlikely that institutions who adopted temporary ...

The University of California has slammed the door shut on using any standardized test for admissions decisions, announcing Thursday that faculty could find no alternative exam that would avoid the ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Depending on your perspective, the college admission testing industry either can’t catch a break or ...