Standardized testing

The College Board says its new, fully digital, shorter SAT analyzes student performance and provides exam questions that meet each students’ skill level.

Dartmouth College recently became the first Ivy League school to reactivate its SAT/ACT requirement for applicants, saying that standardized test results help admissions officers to notice promising students from less-resourced…

Although a number of selective universities have adopted test-optional admissions policies to achieve greater racial and socioeconomic diversity among their students, some experts are questioning whether the approach creates unnecessary…

New research shows that college applicants are selective in deciding when to submit standardized test results to schools that don’t require them, opting to withhold low scores and trusting that…

A new survey examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected college application activity, finding that test-optional policies were especially influential for students of color.

The nation’s largest four-year public college system said it will no longer consider applicants’ SAT and ACT scores in the admissions process. MIT, meanwhile, took a different tack.

The College Board has announced that the SAT will be fully digital for international students in spring 2023 and U.S. students in 2024, and will take just two hours to…

U.S. News & World Report’s new Best Colleges guide includes only slight adjustments to the way it weighs SAT and ACT performance, just as a new Common App study sheds…

Higher education organizations and experts are urging U.S. News & World Report to drop test scores from its “Best Colleges” calculations.

The content of students’ college application essays has an even stronger correlation to household income than SAT scores, according to a new working paper.