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Colleges Drop SAT, Easing Admissions Burden for at Least One Class
The tests were already losing currency, in part because they favor wealthy applicants. Covid-19 forces the issue.
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Tufts University hadn’t been planning to drop its standardized testing requirement for college admissions. Then the coronavirus pandemic upended life for the anxious high school students working to get there.
Tufts and other colleges have now announced that they won’t require SAT or ACT scores from this year’s high school juniors to be considered for admission in fall 2021. A few even waived testing for this year’s seniors. That’s life-changing for some applicants, and it could change the makeup of the next generation of college students.