Will more US colleges drop the SAT and ACT admission requirement?

Study International | September 26, 2019

The majority of US college admissions leaders believe the more institutions will drop the SAT/ACT requirement, a new survey has found. More than half (57 percent) of the 336 admissions leaders surveyed said they strongly agreed or agreed to the statement “The University of Chicago’s change is likely to prompt other colleges to drop standardized testing requirements”, according to the 2019 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admissions Officials, conducted by Gallup. The rest were either neutral (25 percent), disagreed (12 percent) or strong disagreed (six percent). The University of Chicago is the first among top research universities in the US to stop requiring SAT or ACT scores from all students applying to its undergraduate programmes. Its announcement last June ties them to hundreds of colleges, including elite liberal arts institutions, who have dropped the requirement. Standardised testing has been criticised for its unfair burden on low-income and minority students who don’t have the resources to pay the fees or hire tutors to do well in the tests. As a result, this hinders efforts to broaden diversity in colleges and universities.

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