Going from high school to college usually involves taking a standardized test, like the SAT or ACT. A growing number of colleges are doing away with that, leading to some interesting results.
BRYN MAWR, Pa. — On the bucolic campus of Bryn Mawr College, a liberal arts college of 1,400 students outside Philadelphia, competition for admission is fierce.
“Underrepresented groups, such as African American, Hispanic, Latinx, Pacific Islander and Native American—they weren't necessarily even looking at our schools because they felt like they wouldn't get in,” Horsey said, “and there is a lot of data that shows that these school students from under-resourced schools don't do as well in standardized tests.”
“A lot of colleges moved to ‘test optional’ policies because of that, even in the pandemic,” said Jared Bass, with the Center for American Progress, an independent, nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. “That number went up from just north of 1,000 to now north of 1,800.”“Really, what it is correlated with is economic income or like income, specifically.
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