Test-optional colleges get more Pell Grant students, minority students and women
Past studies have revealed similar findings (although the finding on women is new), but the study's release comes at a time when many colleges are anxious for such research. Bennett, who is finishing his doctoral degree at Vanderbilt University, did not receive any outside funding for the work. Bennett said in an interview that he saw one difference between the colleges he studied and the colleges that have just admitted their first class of test-optional students: the time they prepared for the change. Most colleges in the past that have switched to test optional have devoted years to the pr...
Source: insidehighered.com