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Applications surge after big-name colleges halt SAT and ACT testing rules Nick Anderson © Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post People wearing masks walk across the Lawn at the University of Virginia on Sept. 7, 2020 The University of Virginia drew a record 48,000 applications for the next class in Charlottesville about 15 percent more than the year before. Freshman applications to the University of California at Berkeley crossed into six figures for the first time, totaling more than 112,000, up 28 percent. Harvard University’s total spiked to an all-time high of 57,000. That’s up 42 percent. The sudden explosion in demand for these and other big-name schools is another ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic that could reshape college admissions for many years to come. The pandemic has given huge and in some places, decisive momentum to a movement to reduce or even eliminate the use of admissions testing at highly competitive colleges

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