> A lot of introspection needs to be done to determine why these decisions were made.
Not really. It started with the pandemic, which messed up everything, including testing.
Not really. It started with the pandemic, which messed up everything, including testing.
This article from the Washington Post, in October 2019 (before the pandemic started) reported that as of then, 40% of accredited schools had already dropped this requirement.
>>> Nearly 50 accredited colleges and universities that award bachelor’s degrees announced from September 2018 to September 2019 that they were dropping the admissions requirement for an SAT or ACT score, FairTest said. That brings the number of accredited schools to have done so to 1,050 — about 40 percent of the total, the nonprofit said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/18/record-n...
What schools did not drop the requirement during the pandemic would be more interesting.
It might be interesting... if you named any.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-lis...
At least one on there (MIT) we know dropped and brought it back, so it's clearly not a list of those that always required it.