University of California system will no longer consider SAT, ACT scores for admissions
(Article by Ivan Pentchoukov republished from TheEpochTimes.com) The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist. Under the settlement, the university, which enrolls some 225,000 undergraduate students, said it won’t consider SAT or ACT scores sent along with admissions applications until 2025. The university further stated that it had no current plan to consider the scores after 2025. The settlement specifies that the university can still use SAT and ACT scores to determine course placeme...