First Ivy League School Drops SAT and ACT Requirements
An unintended boon for transfer students?
The College Fix reports.
Columbia is the first Ivy League school to drop multiple SAT and ACT requirements
The past year has seen an explosion in American colleges and universities dropping various aspects of the SAT and ACT exams as requirements in their admissions policies.
But when Columbia University took the plunge earlier this summer, dropping the SAT subject tests and SAT and ACT writing portions as application requirements starting next year, it became the first member of the Ivy League to do both. Its all-women affiliate Barnard College followed suit a few weeks later.
Like a steady stream of other prestigious private schools, including crosstown rival New York University, Columbia and Barnard cited their commitment to a “holistic” application process as a core motivation behind the change.
Columbia is the first Ivy League school to drop multiple SAT and ACT requirements (The College Fix)
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It implies that these schools are ramping up the Affirmative Action express.
Hard scores with real, objective, verifiable numbers attached are the most difficult hurdle if the goal is packing in students who simply aren’t academically qualified.
They tried diluting the tests with the “written” portion, which by its nature has far more fudge room in scoring. But that doesn’t seem to have done the job.
OR … they’re all feuding with both The College Board and ACT, Inc.
Another reason the no one should ever hire an Ivy League graduate. All entitlement, no achievement.