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“It’s very exciting to see this settlement as for decades, Black and brown students who can’t afford pricey SAT and ACT test prep and tutors have been at a disadvantage when applying to University of California schools and scholarships,” said Aurea Montes-Rodriguez, the executive vice president of Community Coalition, one of the groups that sued over the admissions policies.
Stett Holbrook, a spokesman for the University of California system, said the university settled to provide certainty for students and their families, counselors and high schools.
The number of test-optional colleges, pre-pandemic, was 1,070, or 46 percent of such four-year institutions, according to FairTest: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing. Only one four-year college (Hampshire College) was test blind, meaning it would not look at test scores.
No More SAT or ACT at U of California
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The University of California on Friday agreed to stop considering the SAT and ACT in admissions decisions, settling a court decision that the university lost.
A California judge in September issued a preliminary injunction barring University of California campuses from considering SAT or ACT scores in admissions or financial aid decisions. An appeals court upheld the ruling in November.
The ruling came after the University of California Board of Regents voted, in May 2020, to approve a five-year plan to phase out the use of the SAT and ACT. In the first two years of that plan, the university system was to be test optional, meaning applicants could continue to submit scores, but they didn t have to. Now the university system must be test blind, meaning that no student can submit a test score. But some UC campuses including Berkeley already were test blind in admissions.
University of California Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores
The university system has reached a settlement with students to scrap even optional testing from admissions and scholarship decisions.
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the U.C. campuses across the state that will no longer consider SAT and ACT scores for admissions or scholarships.Credit.Jeff Chiu/Associated Press
May 15, 2021Updated 3:57 p.m. ET
The University of California will not take SAT and ACT scores into account in admissions or scholarship decisions for its system of 10 schools, which include some of the nation’s most sought-after campuses, in accordance with a settlement in a lawsuit brought by students.
University of California Board of Regents Chair John A. Pérez and UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., today (May 14) issued the following statement on Gov. Newsom’s revised 2021-22 budget:
The University of California is deeply grateful to Gov. Newsom for proposing the largest state investment in UC’s history: more than $807 million, which includes more than $506 million in ongoing funding for core campus operations, student needs and medical training. The budget, with the support of legislative leadership, reflects an earlier agreement to fully restore more than $300 million in budget reductions that were enacted in the 2020 state budget.