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The Classic Learning Test is on its way as an option instead of the SAT and ACT.

Fears that the LSAT is harming diversity in law schools might be allayed by simply visiting them.

<p>A researcher discovered a pattern in the experimental vetting of SAT test questions in the 1990s: questions on which Black students outscored White students in trials were usually excluded from future tests. This practice is linked back to the roots of IQ testing in the eugenics movement.</p>

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An alternative test would perpetuate racial and economic disparities while adding only "modest" value in predicting college success, a faculty group has recommended.

Fair Admission Podcast Advocates for Reform of This College Process Fair Admission host Edward Sturm (CFA’24) noticed the disparities of education overall long before he came to college. Photo courtesy of Sturm Podcasts Fair Admission Podcast Advocates for Reform of This College Process Edward Sturm (CFA’24) sits down with higher education professionals, students, prominent authors to discuss policies April 6, 2021 Twitter Facebook There once was a time wh...

One by one, the California blows against the SAT and ACT kept coming. First UC Berkeley announced last May that it wanted to disregard SAT and ACT test scores in admissions decisions for some students in a pilot study. The same day, University of California regents unanimously voted to phase out the tests over five years. After that, Caltech nixed them for at least two years. And in September, a California state judge ordered UC to immediately suspend all use of test scores in admissions. Mean...

After doing away with the SAT and ACT in freshman admissions, the University of California should not develop its own standardized test or use any other standardized exam as an admissions requirement, a key university committee has recommended.  Instead, the committee says UC should explore giving students the option to submit their 11th grade Smarter Balanced exams, the state’s annual standardized tests, for consideration when applying for admission to the system’s nine undergraduate camp...