Yale University has decided to reinstate the requirement for prospective students to submit standardized test scores, such as SAT or ACT, for undergraduate admissions. This move comes after a four-year period during which the tests were optional. The university is shifting from a test-optional policy to a test-flexible one, accepting IB and AP scores along with SAT and ACT. The decision aligns Yale with other elite universities like Dartmouth and MIT, which have also reintroduced standardized test requirements for admissions.
Yale reinstates SAT, ACT admissions requirement, claiming it will ‘increase the diversity of the student body’ https://t.co/P4utx8CzdB
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
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Yale University will again require students to submit SAT or other standardized test scores when they apply for admission, dropping a test-optional policy. https://t.co/26CT7AMvTK
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Yale University said it is reversing a pandemic-era policy that made standardized test scores like the SAT exam optional for applicants, joining other top colleges such as Dartmouth and MIT. https://t.co/9P7DLafImU
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Yale University will once again require standardized test scores for undergraduate admissions. https://t.co/rxYF6HJwXD
This college is reinstating standardize tests scores as a requirement for admissions: https://t.co/hEEZ6HGSat https://t.co/QNgDF5FhiV
Four years after most elite universities dropped test score requirements for admission, some are bringing them back. https://t.co/bQV0bS6wNX
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Yale brings back SAT, ACT as admissions requirements https://t.co/qj52C832Vg A modest move in a rational direction for the Ivy League. Other schools will follow; you need a neutral benchmark to understand how inflated gradepoints are at various high schools.
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