University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 21, 2020 | Douglas Belkin

[Trump20162020]

Admissions tests, allegedly biased against minority students, will be phased out over five years

The University of California board of regents voted Thursday to stop using the SAT and ACT college admissions exams, reshaping college admissions in one of the largest and most prestigious university systems in the country and dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry.

The unanimous 23-to-0 vote ratified a proposal put forward last month by UC President Janet Napolitano to phase out the exams over the next five years until the sprawling UC system can develop its own test.

The battle against standardized tests has raged for years because minority students score, on average, lower than their white classmates. Advocates argue that the exams are an unfair admission barrier to those students because they often cannot pay for pricey test preparation.

“The test is a proxy for privilege,” said Regent Cecilia Estolano. “It’s time, it has been studied to death.”

[Tired of Taxes]

What is the point of phasing out SAT/ACT tests if California just makes up its own?

I can't read the rest of the article without a subscription, but...

Maybe the college will adopt a placement test, similar to the placement test given by community colleges.

[trebb]

Yep - they have declared themselves purveyors of happiness instead of education - everyone knows that dumm stidentds is happeee studnuts.

[Howie66]

LMAO!

Thanks for the laugh, Frank!

[RFEngineer]

“The battle against standardized tests has raged for years because minority students score, on average, lower than their white classmates. “

This has less to do with race, and more to do with capturing more student loan-applicants for full-boat tuition to support their ivory tower just a little bit longer before it collapses.