The University of California System Will No Longer Consider SAT and ACT Scores for Admissions

The nine campuses of the University of California system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021.

The change is the result of a legal settlement (pdf) of a lawsuit brought by groups that claimed that the traditional SAT and ACT tests are racist.

Under the settlement, the university, which enrolls some 225,000 undergraduate students, said it won’t consider SAT or ACT scores sent along with admissions applications until 2025. The university further stated that it had no current plan to consider the scores after 2025.

The settlement specifies that the university can still use SAT and ACT scores to determine course placement after the students are accepted. But the nine campuses will no longer use the test scores to determine how to award scholarships.

The lawsuit was filed against the university on Dec. 10, 2019, by several students and groups, including Chinese for Affirmative Action, College Access Plan, College Seekers, Community Coalition, Dolores Huerta Foundation, and Little Manila Rising. The Compton Unified School District filed a similar lawsuit on the same day. The two cases were subsequently merged.

On Aug. 31, 2020, the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda, ordered the university to stop using the SAT and ACT test results for admissions or scholarship decisions while the lawsuit was pending. The university appealed the decision and the appeal remains unresolved.

As part of the settlement, the University of California system will pay $1.25 million in attorney fees to the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs.

I don’t think it’s ‘human nature’.

Human nature interfered with by socialization has a lot to do with it, and many overcome it, no matter what kind of ‘district’ they live in.

Have a discussion with Ben Carson or Justice Thomas - or Walter Williams (R.I.P.) or Thomas Sowell about this.

(I could give a much longer list...)

Absolutely. When my nephew had to make a decision on going to college or going to trade school, the High School counselors pushed college, but his parents had a frank discussion with him on his ability to make it through four years of college. After discussing it with his parents he went to trade school to become an HVAC technician. He now makes enough to have purchased a small house and start a family. Had he gone to college he would graduated in 2020. He worked through the COVID mess

A lot of those young people that dropped out my daughters first year never went back to school and she knows one young lady who was working retail until COVID. She was barely making it before COVID and has no desire to go back to work, guess why? She has become a free-rider on society.

Of course not. I didn’t suggest they are. But many are and they virtually all have a more consistent, higher level of indoctrination than those in generations before them.

Again, you apparently aren’t working with such populations and have no idea. I don’t appreciate your trying to imply that I am offering a racist perspective or am absolutist in any claims of how every student thinks. I simply suggested that it is human nature to accept massive indoctrination that appears to be strongly biased in one’s interest.

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