Shocking (not) Test Optional News of the Week #2
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Yesterday morning, on our weekly show College Coffee Talk, I covered the story about Harvard and CalTech ending their experiments with allowing students not to submit their SAT or ACT. I suggested (for the umpteenth time) that this seems to be part of a slow trend for Ivy and other elite colleges -- and less elite --see College of The Ozarks a/k/a Hard Work U (go Bobcats!).
Today Cornell University said See ya, wouldn't want to be ya, to test-optional policies, citing familiar reasons for reinstating testing requirements:
They're helpful predictors of academic performance in college.
Another interesting bit of information: 42% of students who submitted scores were admitted. Yes, I understand that students with stronger scores tended to submit them, but still.
I don't know if you're a betting man or woman, but were I placing a wager, I would bet big that this trend is picking up steam. Which means that, if you have a class of 2025 or younger child, the best thing you can do for them is get them prepped and ready to get their scores on either the SAT or ACT as high as possible, then decide which colleges to send 'em into.
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- Andy Lockwood
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