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Advocates for mandated standardized tests say that test-optional policies, however well intended, actually make it harder for schools to identify promising students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Only 4 percent of colleges now require test scores, down from 55 percent in 2019. Fewer than half… In college admissions, ‘test-optional’ is the new normal
Graduates from a high school in Connecticut in 2008. College admissions in the United States is the process of applying for undergraduate study at colleges or universities. [1] For students entering college directly after high school, the process typically begins in eleventh grade, with most applications submitted during twelfth grade. [2]
Test-optional admissions is expected to be extended two more years through the 2026-27 school year.
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755. [2]
February 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) FairTest was founded in 1985 by leaders of civil rights and education groups to advance their view that the misuse, overuse and flaws of standardized testing practices may be detrimental to academic achievement and equal opportunity.
It’s been almost four years since the state’s public universities stopped requiring students to submit test scores for admission. UNC System waived SAT, ACT requirements during the pandemic ...
The Bates College study prompted a movement among small liberal arts colleges to make the SAT optional for admission to college in the early 2000s. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Indeed, according to a 31 August 2006 article in The New York Times , "It is still far too early to sound the death knell, but for many small liberal arts colleges, the SAT may have ...