Yale University is reintroducing standardized tests for admissions, reversing a pandemic-era policy that made tests like the SAT optional for applicants. The decision follows other elite colleges like MIT and Dartmouth reinstating test requirements, citing unintended harm to low-income and first-gen applicants from the 'test-optional' approach. The move to bring back standardized tests has sparked a debate over their role in college admissions.
Universities around the nation dropped SAT requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the recent move by some elite schools to reinstate test requirements has reignited the long-running debate over standardized tests. https://t.co/ZvFtgNBuKT
Yale is resuming admission based on SAT scores, which they paused during the pandemic. Yale said that the policy might have "unwittingly harmed students from lower-income families whose test scores could have helped their chances," according to the NYT. Unintended consequences.
Dartmouth College and Yale University recently announced that they would require standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions, following a four-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Stanford freshmen shared their thoughts on the news. https://t.co/eb30FehB2P
sats on sats on sats https://t.co/YHfChwjhnY
Colleges are bringing back the SAT, the Editorial Board writes. It’s the right move. https://t.co/dtpyluaLjc
The pandemic — and the mass pivot to a test-optional approach — reshuffled college admissions and students’ chances of getting into selective schools. Why did MIT decide to reinstate the SAT and ACT? What is a good SAT score anyway? https://t.co/JvDGLrqyji
Two years after nearly every elite college made SAT and ACT scores optional, MIT made the controversial decision to require them again. Earlier this year, Dartmouth, then Yale, did the same https://t.co/auvr5KBM2G
Last week, Yale announced it would start requiring tests again, while U Michigan announced a permanent "test optional" policy. Dartmouth found that "test optional" harms the low-income, first-gen applicants it is intended to help. I explain why in the thread below 1/x
Yale is reversing a pandemic-era policy that made standardized test scores like the SAT exam optional for applicants. https://t.co/wD6ZPj5G10
Yale Reinstituting Standardized Tests For Admission https://t.co/XqI69am14F