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From NYT: Many colleges won’t require SAT or ACT test scores for applicants. More than half of all four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. will not require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores for admissions this fall, an anti-testing group said Monday, a major shift in the way colleges select students that has been accelerated by the pandemic. The group, FairTest, said that 1,240 of the 2,330 institutions that granted bachelor’s degrees in the 2018-19 academic yea...r have now made the tests optional. The total includes nearly 200 colleges and universities that have at least temporarily dropped the testing requirement since the spring, when the outbreak forced the cancellation of many test dates. The tests have long been criticized as being unfair to low-income, black and Hispanic students, leading a growing number of colleges to make testing optional. Supporters say they provide a uniform way of judging students across schools. Some of the most selective schools in the country have announced that they are making the SAT and the ACT optional for at least the coming application cycle, including Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia and Cornell, according to FairTest. Bob Schaeffer, the president of FairTest, said that if the past was any guide, some schools would not restore the testing requirement when the pandemic was over. The College Board recently announced it was scrapping plans to offer an online SAT test, out of concern that students would not have equal access to the technology needed to take it. The ACT is still planning to offer an at-home exam.

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To those of you with high school juniors curious about what's next for the SATs, please see below from the College Board. College Board has no plans for an at-home test in 2020 and they are asking for colleges to show flexibility in admissions next year to reduce student stress. See the link for more info: