Board of Governors Considering Reinstating SAT

If the policy isn't voted on by December, all UNC universities will revert to pre-pandemic requirements: All students in the incoming fall 2025 ...

Board of Governors discusses new required learning outcomes, reinstating ACT and SAT scores ... Photo by Heather Diehl / The Daily Tar Heel UNC ...

Under the proposed policy change, the chancellors of the state's 16 public universities, with approval from their campus-level boards of ...

Students may have hoped that standardized testing for college admissions would remain optional. But several highly selective schools have ...

“Despite a media frenzy around a single Ivy League school reinstating testing requirements, ACT/SAT-optional and test-blind/score-free policies ...

In 2021, 59% of applicants did not submit an ACT or SAT score. It increased to 64% in 2022. In 2020, the UNC System Board of Governors waived ...

The UNC Board of Governors is considering a new policy for testing requirements at North Carolina's public universities.

In the midst of the Covid pandemic, the UNC Board of Governors made the decision to take some pressure off potential applicants by ...

But after the pandemic set in, physically preventing students from convening to take the standardized tests, the board voted in July 2020 to ...

5, 2024, Dartmouth College announced that it would return to requiring SAT® or ACT® test scores for college admission, basing its decision off ...

Colleges described the move as temporary, but nearly all have since stuck to a test-optional policy. It reflects a backlash against standardized ...

Despite trends towards test-optional policies in recent years, many prestigious universities have decided to reinstate standardized testing ...

“During the pandemic, colleges basically decided to give a pass if you didn't take the SAT or ACT … they assumed it was an act of God, ...

Even before the pandemic, equity concerns were often cited as reasons these tests should not be required; both the UC and Cal State systems have ...

The testing requirement was paused at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when many students were not able to take SATs and ACTs. The hiatus ...

It is the Board of Governors who forced the UCs to go test blind, not the universities. They were supposed to develop their own test instead, ...

Next year, Illinois high school juniors could take the ACT instead of the SAT as the federally-mandated state test. The Illinois State Board of ...

Yale University is considering reinstating standardized ... Board Alleges. Selective colleges ditched ... Trustees of Dartmouth College.

Dartmouth College will restore its SAT requirement for admissions for the Class of 2029 and onward after making the test optional for ...

This is highly unfair to students applying in the fall 2024. If NYU decides to go test mandatory now, students will have to rush to take SAT in ...