Dartmouth reinstates the SAT

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Dartmouth's decision got attention only because Dartmouth is one of the Ivy League universities that U.S. media and economic elites are fixated on. MIT resumed requiring that applicants submit SAT scores two years ago, after a two-year pandemic-driven hiatus. MIT's decision didn't generate nearly as much media coverage.

Yes and no. MIT requires applicants to be able to add and subtract. Ivy League schools do not do so systematically.

I'm guessing that that distinction is what drove and drives media interest, which in turn reflects overwhelming parental interests. Buy my kid into a place. The MIT graduates I have known were by no means bought in!

Caltech is different in method. It has refused SAT scores until 2025, but an applicant can submit a research paper! There's no media outcry over this either.

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Yale too.

Yale to Require Standardized Test Scores for Admissions
Officials said test-optional policies might have harmed students from lower-income families.

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Dartmouth's decision got attention only because Dartmouth is one of the Ivy League universities that U.S. media and economic elites are fixated on. MIT resumed requiring that applicants submit SAT scores two years ago, after a two-year pandemic-driven hiatus. MIT's decision didn't generate nearly as much media coverage.

Yes and no. MIT requires applicants to be able to add and subtract. Ivy League schools do not do so systematically.

I'm guessing that that distinction is what drove and drives media interest, which in turn reflects overwhelming parental interests. Buy my kid into a place. The MIT graduates I have known were by no means bought in!

Caltech is different in method. It has refused SAT scores until 2025, but an applicant can submit a research paper! There's no media outcry over this either.

Luckily MIT didn't run itself as a pay to play scheme. As a first-generation college student, I didn't have the money it would have taken to get in. This is one reason I didn't have any interest in applying to Harvard.

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Brown University will reinstate standardized testing requirements for admission, joining Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on "test optional" policies adopted during the Covid pandemic.
Brown's decision, announced on Tuesday, will require either SAT or ACT scores and will be in effect in the upcoming admissions cycle.

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U. of Texas at Austin Will Return to Standardized Test Requirement
The university said SAT and ACT scores help it place students in programs that fit them best.

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Harvard and Caltech join the fray!

Harvard and Caltech Will Require Test Scores for Admission
The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional.