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 ...

Standardized testing is one of the most fixated upon and debated aspects of the college admission process. It is also one that generates great angst and skepticism among applicants and their ...

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 ...

William Liang At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A ...

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

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 ...

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Emily Macias ’25 applied to Stanford during a global pandemic and amid fast-changing testing requirements. Test-prep affordability and difficulty in finding testing centers made Stanford’s move to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Stanford University announced on Wednesday that it will extend its test-optional admissions policy for first-year and transfer students applying to the university for admission in 2022-23. The ...