The College Board says its new, fully digital, shorter SAT analyzes student performance and provides exam questions that meet each students’ skill level.
Topics: Standardized testing
Dartmouth reinstates SAT/ACT requirement, citing diversity goals
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 backgrounds who “might otherwise be missed in a test-optional environment.”
Rethinking standardized test scores in college admissions
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 blind spots.
Students are seizing the strategic opportunity presented by test-optional policies, research suggests
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 they will not be penalized.
Survey shows how test-optional policies swayed students’ college pursuits
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.
California State University eliminates SAT, ACT from admissions
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.
SAT to become fully digital, shorter by 2024
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 complete.
SAT/ACT: U.S. News makes minor changes, study shows who submitted test scores last year
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 light on who actually submitted scores last year.
Will U.S. News answer calls to exclude SAT/ACT scores from rankings?
Higher education organizations and experts are urging U.S. News & World Report to drop test scores from its “Best Colleges” calculations.
It’s not just the SAT. Social class encoded in college essays, too.
The content of students’ college application essays has an even stronger correlation to household income than SAT scores, according to a new working paper.
UC system: SAT/ACT scores will not factor into admissions, scholarship decisions
Bringing closure to an ongoing lawsuit, the University of California system has agreed to no longer consider SAT or ACT scores when making admissions and scholarship decisions.
Elite colleges admitted more underrepresented students this year, early reports suggest
As students weigh college admissions offers ahead of the May 1 decision deadline, early data indicate that the nation’s top schools could welcome an especially diverse class this year.