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  • As attention spans get shorter, so does the SAT -- and soon the ACT

    06/21/2025 11:30:42 AM PDT · by TexasKamaAina · 14 replies
    Joanne Jacobs ^ | 06/20/2025 | Joanne Jacobs
    As colleges return to requiring test scores for admissions, the SAT has become shorter and easier, charges Michael Torres, policy director for the Classic Learning Test (CLT), on the Martin Center blog. The SAT now caters to students who have trouble reading long, complex texts.
  • Millions of students dropped out as higher ed shifted focus from degrees to DEI

    06/19/2025 7:15:26 AM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | June 18, 2025 | Leona Salinas
    Over 2.1 million Americans have dropped out of college without earning a degree, a troubling trend that raises concerns about whether universities are prioritizing politics over academic achievement. Universities hire more DEI staff than history professors while millions of students leave without degrees ... Over 2.1 million Americans have dropped out of college without earning a degree, a troubling trend that raises concerns about whether universities are prioritizing politics over academic achievement. A June 4 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that college non-completers rose by 2.2 percent in the past year. Citing a lack of direction,...
  • The SAT’s Trust Fall. Legacy standardized-testing firms are cutting rigor to please students.

    06/20/2025 3:28:38 AM PDT · by karpov · 15 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | June 18, 2025 | Michael Torres
    As the policy director for the Classic Learning Test (CLT), I’ve had dozens of conversations with lawmakers across the country about college entrance exams over the last year. Surprisingly, the topic that has drawn the most intense scrutiny has not been the CLT: It’s been changes made to the SAT in 2024 (and similar changes to the ACT being implemented right now). First, most lawmakers are surprised to learn that the tests change at all. They are then flabbergasted to learn what the most recent changes to the SAT were. The most noticeable changes were to the structure of the...
  • Crimson Slide: Harvard Students Offered High School Basic Math Course

    04/08/2025 9:41:43 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Jonathan Turley ^ | April 8, 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard will offer high-school-level math courses to its students. The remedial assistance has rekindled criticism over Harvard’s move away from standardized tests in making admissions decisions. For years, Harvard has been accused of lowering admissions standards to achieve “equity” goals in its classes. The school opposed efforts to uncover its admissions data. When that data was ultimately revealed, sharp differences emerged based on race. The differences led to the historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023) barring the use of race in college admissions. As court decisions made it...
  • Is Standardized Testing Good or Bad?

    03/14/2025 6:09:32 AM PDT · by karpov · 30 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | March 14, 2025 | George Leef
    Should colleges and universities—especially those regarded as elite—use the scores students earned on standardized tests in making admissions decisions? That has been a heated subject of debate for several decades. Opponents of testing claim that the tests are unfair to minority students and help perpetuate the socioeconomic supremacy of affluent whites, while defenders argue that standardized tests help schools distinguish between students who are capable of doing the level of work required and those who aren’t. Which side is right? Does it really matter? In his new book, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing, Nicholas Lemann...
  • UPenn becomes sixth Ivy League school to end pandemic 'test-optional' policy for undergrads

    02/20/2025 7:14:05 AM PST · by george76 · 8 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | February 18, 2025
    The University of Pennsylvania announced it would require standardized test scores for undergraduates in the upcoming admissions cycle. The school says the change will bring 'clarity and transparency to the application process.' Another Ivy League institution has elected to reinstate mandatory standardized testing after making it optional for undergraduate applicants since the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday, the University of Pennsylvania announced it would require SAT or ACT scores in the upcoming admissions cycle in order to bring “clarity and transparency to the application process.” ... ”Beginning with the 2025-2026 undergraduate admissions cycle, Penn is reinstating a standardized testing requirement for...
  • Out-of-work Kamala Harris showed up to Lakers game and ‘nobody even cared’ — as she sat in cheap seats

    02/07/2025 8:50:47 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 51 replies
    NY Post ^ | 02/07/2025 | Emily Crane
    Former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were spotted at a Los Angeles Lakers game Thursday night — with many quick to boast that “nobody even cared” she was there. Footage circulating on social media showed the ex-veep showing up to the arena with very little fanfare as she and her hubby hiked up the stairs to their non-courtside seats. “Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff arrive at the Lakers game. Pretty much nobody cared,” one person howled on X. “Just goes to show you how unpopular Kamala really is and how all the hoopla while she campaigned...
  • Harvard Finally Reinstates the SAT for Admissions

    04/11/2024 9:01:35 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/11/24 | John Sexton
    Harvard has finally changed course and reinstated standardized testing for admissions after several other Ivy League schools led the way.Students applying to enter Harvard in fall 2025 and beyond will be required to submit SAT or ACT scores, though the university said a few other test scores will be accepted in “exceptional cases,” including Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests. The university had previously said it was going to keep its test-optional policy through the entering class of fall 2026...In explaining its decision to accelerate the return to testing, Harvard cited a study by Opportunity Insights, which found that test...
  • Harvard will require test scores for admission again

    04/11/2024 12:26:44 PM PDT · by JSM_Liberty · 19 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | April 11, 2024 at 10:21 a.m. EDT | Susan Svluga
    Harvard College will require applicants to submit standardized test scores once again, becoming the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic. The university had previously said it would remain test-optional through the 2025-2026 application cycle.... Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic. Dartmouth College, Yale and Brown universities announced similar changes in recent weeks, after officials cited data suggesting that SAT and ACT scores were the best predictors of students’ academic performance at their schools — and that making...
  • Brown, Texas latest universities to bring back mandatory SAT scores

    03/12/2024 7:15:06 AM PDT · by JSM_Liberty · 16 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/11/24 3:43 PM ET | Lexi Lonas
    The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Brown University are the latest schools to reinstate SAT or ACT score requirements in their admissions process. UT Austin announced Monday that standardized test scores will be required again, starting with applicants for the fall of 2025. “Our goals are to attract the best and brightest students and to make sure every student is successful once they are here. Standardized scores combined with high school GPA support this goal by improving early identification of students who demonstrated the greatest academic achievement, the most potential, and those who can most benefit from...
  • Yale University To Reinstate Standardized Test Requirement For Admissions

    02/22/2024 5:39:28 AM PST · by JSM_Liberty · 23 replies
    Forbes ^ | Feb 22, 2024,08:04am EST | Michael T. Nietzel
    Yale University will once again require standardized testing for students applying for admission in the fall of 2025. The decision, announced today, ends the test-optional undergraduate admissions process that had been in place at Yale since the pandemic. According to the announcement, the past four years of test-optional admissions had given Yale what it described as “an invaluable opportunity to think deeply about testing policy and to generate new data and analyses. With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world, we have reevaluated our policy with the benefit of fresh insights.” Yale is describing its new...
  • Dartmouth Reinstates the SAT Nearly Four Years After Announcing it Would Temporarily Remove Testing Requirement for Applicants

    02/07/2024 8:09:55 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Hotair ^ | 02/07/2024 | John Sexton
    Nearly four years after announcing it would temporarily remove the testing requirement for applicants, Dartmouth has announced it is reinstating the SAT.When Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, it was a pragmatic pause taken by most colleges and universities in response to an unprecedented global pandemic. At the time, we imagined the resulting "test-optional" policy as a short-term practice rather than an informed commentary on the role of testing in our holistic evaluation process. Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our admissions process as well as its value as...
  • (Dartmouth) College to reinstate standardized test requirement for Class of 2029

    02/05/2024 7:38:47 AM PST · by JSM_Liberty · 11 replies
    The Dartmouth ^ | February 5, 2024 | Kelsey Wang
    Dartmouth will reinstate the standardized test requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, according to a campus-wide email from President Sian Leah Beilock. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth adopted a test-optional policy for applicants to the Classes of 2025, 2026 and 2027 and a test-recommended policy for applicants to the Class of 2028, according to Lee Coffin, Vice President and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid. “The reactivation [of the test-required policy] has been modeled on a very comprehensive research study by a group of faculty,” Coffin said in an interview with The Dartmouth. According...
  • Mandate Standardized Testing. Only an objective measure can assure North Carolinians that their universities are not cheating on race.

    12/11/2023 3:31:18 AM PST · by karpov · 8 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 11, 2023 | Stephen Porter
    The recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action forbids the use of race in college admissions. Yet North Carolina public universities are already finding ways to circumvent the spirit of the ruling, such as by using essay questions that ask students about challenges they have faced or to reflect on their identity. These prompts allow students to say, for example, “As a Black student … ,” which is indeed permissible under Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard; students are not forbidden from bringing up their race in their applications. These essay responses, as well as the personal interviews that are...
  • Asian-American Student Has Near-Perfect SAT Score and a 4.65 GPA, Gets Ugly Shock After Applications to Elite Universities

    06/11/2023 12:48:24 PM PDT · by ShadowAce · 60 replies
    Western Journal ^ | 11 June 2023 | Bryan Chai
    Ask Asian children who their harshest critics are, and you will invariably get some answer involving mom, dad, or both. Bad news for Asian-Americans across the United States — they won’t be finding much reprieve from school administrators and staff at the university level. Look no further than the curious case of 18-year-old Jon Wang, a Florida native sporting some impressive academic marks. According to Fox News, Wang scored a sterling 1590 out of 1600 on his SAT exam (many Asian parents would probably be mad about him being 10 points short of a perfect score) and earned an eye-popping...
  • The Soros Activist At The Heart Of California’s $800 Billion Slave Reparations

    05/24/2023 8:50:22 AM PDT · by arthurus · 25 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | Daniel Greenfield
    In 2021, the Equal Justice Institute celebrated a settlement with the University of California in which the system agreed to stop using SAT and ACT test scores, objective merit-based metrics, in college admissions, until 2025. The racialist lawsuit claimed that test scores violate the California Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause as “indicators” of race. The “SAT is a barrier to equal opportunity”, Lisa Holder, a counsel with the Equal Opportunity Institute, claimed. Like a lot of destructive leftist activists, Lisa Holder received a Soros Justice Fellowship from the radical billionaire’s Open Society Foundation.
  • We Can Dump The Useless, Politicized SAT Without Dumping Standardized Testing Altogether

    05/03/2023 8:01:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/03/2023 | Jeremy Tate
    States are realizing there is a much-needed alternative to today’s watered-down, useless standardized tests: the Classic Learning Test.The days of needing flashcards to study SAT vocabulary words to get into college are over — but not just because more and more schools have decided to jettison standardized testing entirely. Today’s SAT is a shadow of its former self, having been dumbed down and manipulated over the past several decades to serve political ends. In its current form, the test has outlived its usefulness.In fact, Florida lawmakers have affirmed as much in a recent education bill that passed the Florida House...
  • A majority of colleges have dropped SAT requirements, Matt Yglesias has an interesting theory why

    04/26/2023 8:04:15 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 49 replies
    Hotair ^ | 04/26/2023 | John Sexton
    So if you have kids in college or heading to college sometime soon then you’re probably already aware that many schools have abandoned the SAT as a requirement for applicants. Forbes reported last fall that the SAT is now optional at a majority of schools.As the college application process picks up steam for the upcoming academic year, a new survey shows that more than 80% of U.S. bachelor-degree granting institutions will not require students seeking fall 2023 admission to submit either ACT or SAT standardized exam scores…“An overwhelming majority of undergraduate admissions offices now make selection decisions without relying on...
  • Highschooler With 4.1 GPA Explains Why She Thinks She Was Rejected From 'Every College She Applied To'

    04/03/2023 4:54:36 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 134 replies
    Your Tango ^ | Apr 2, 2023 | Nia Tipton
    Many high school students are pushing back against the importance of test scores. Awaiting responses from colleges on whether you were accepted or rejected can be quite stressful. That stress can quickly turn to disappointment when having been rejected from colleges that were high on your priority list. For one high schooler, despite her high overall average when she sent out college applications, she was shocked to receive more rejections in the mail than she hadn't been anticipating. In a TikTok video, the teenage girl, C'Lette, filmed all of the rejection letters she had received in the mail from schools...
  • Dropping the SAT Requirement Is a Luxury Belief Disguising self-interest as virtue

    03/05/2023 6:06:56 PM PST · by karpov · 29 replies
    Substack ^ | March 5, 2023 | Rob Henderson
    Suppose you’re a poor teenager in a dysfunctional environment. You have to work a part time job to help make ends meet. Your parents are absent or completely checked out. So you have to help take care of your younger siblings. You’re smart, but you’re not in a position to devote much time to homework; to getting top grades in every class. But you set a few hours aside in an afternoon, and receive an outstanding score on the SAT. Suddenly, options become available to you. Our ruling class is doing all they can to prevent this possibility. Remember: If...