Tag: SAT
The SAT and ACT are less important than you might think
Mary L. Churchill, Boston University
College admission tests are becoming a thing of the past.
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Simply scrapping the SAT won’t make colleges more diverse
Guadalupe I. Lozano, University of Arizona
When the University of California decided in early 2020 to stop using the ACT and SAT in admissions by...
The SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ is a poor fix for a...
Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh
The College Board recently revealed a new “adversity score” that it plans to use as part of the SAT in...
Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans
Julie J. Park, University of Maryland
When ACT released its latest test scores this past October, the results showed that average scores took a dip...
If you thought colleges making the SAT optional would level the...
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Pennsylvania State University
When colleges and universities began to make the SAT an optional part of the admissions process, the hope was...
If you thought colleges making the SAT optional would level the...
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Pennsylvania State University
When colleges and universities began to make the SAT an optional part of the admissions process, the hope was...
More colleges than ever have test-optional admissions policies — and that’s...
Joseph Soares, Wake Forest University
Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants...