As colleges and universities drop admission tests

The SAT OR ACT standardized test score used to make or break college applications for high school seniors. But the pandemic turned that all ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities dropped the SAT/ACT and became test optional or test free. Some schools have ...

Many colleges stopped requiring the SAT or ACT for admission during the pandemic. Now they're analyzing the results.

In response to testing disruptions at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many colleges implemented test-optional admission policies. Some ...

Evidence of a gender gap has existed for decades. Now, an increasing number of schools are making the SAT optional for admission.

During COVID, many colleges made applicants' submission of standardized test scores optional, or even adopted test-blind admissions. But now ...

While many of the schools converting to test-optional admissions procedures initially did so to accommodate applicants during the worst of the ...

If students from private boarding schools are more likely to do better on tests and thus in college, it's because those colleges—and the exams ...

For a brief period, many colleges and universities hopped on the trend of dropping standardized testing requirements for incoming freshmen.

After the Covid pandemic made it difficult for high school students to take the SAT and ACT, dozens of selective colleges dropped their ...

When the pandemic hit, limiting access to test-taking sites, most colleges and universities dropped their SAT/ACT submission requirements for ...

Some of the most selective schools are declaring they will require tests again — including, across the last two months, Dartmouth College and ...

Many universities dropped the testing requirement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some prestigious institutions, such as the Massachusetts ...

At least 1,825 four-year colleges in the US — or more than 80 percent of them — will not require SAT or ACT scores for fall 2025, according to ...

The executive director of FairTest, Harry Feder, talks about why some colleges are going test-free for admissions. WATCH the ABC News Live ...

Some universities were already considering a pivot away from standardized test requirements before the pandemic hit. Almost 50 colleges dropped ...

As the US Supreme Court prepares to vote on the fate of Affirmative Action, many universities and colleges are doing away with standardized ...

COLLEGE ADMISSION TESTS are becoming a thing of the past. More than 80 percent of US colleges and universities do not require applicants to ...

It saw 20% more first-generation and low-income students the year after it dropped the testing requirement, and rural student admissions spiked ...

In fact, more than 80% of schools will not require applicants to submit scores for fall 2025 admissions, according to the National Center for ...