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Columnist Are the days of taking the SAT or ACT over? College-related news has recently focused on changes with admissions test requirements for four-year universities. How should a student who is planning to prepare themselves for college proceed? The test-optional movement began before the pandemic. However, during the height of the pandemic, exam dates were canceled; test sites closed, and if they did re-open, they limited test-takers to accommodate social distancing. Many students were unable to sit for the required exams. Four-year institutions made temporary adjustments. However, Robert...
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...
79% 47% Similar statistics are available for first-generation students and those who received fee waivers on their applications. These reductions in the number of applicants submitting scores are larger than testing companies have wanted to see or have speculated would take place. ACT last week admitted a decline, but Janet Godwin, ACT's CEO, blogged that the colleges that still do look at test scores said they were using them in admissions decisions "despite the 20 to 30 percent decrease in students sending test scores." ACT, in response to the new data, issued a statement. "These figures a...
Through Feb. 15, only 44 percent of people using the Common Application submitted SAT or ACT scores. Last year's total was 77 percent.