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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 when the anxiety of taking the SAT and filling out college applications hung over high school students...

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. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic leveled its own hits — upending the testing environment nationwide by...

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 campuses. The committee determined that the Smarter Balanced exam would be an improvement from the SAT a...