Princeton University reinstates ACT/SAT requirements!

Princeton University announced this week that they will be requiring 2027 applicants to submit ACT/SAT scores, making them the seventh Ivy League school to reinstate standardized testing requirements. Princeton, like so many universities before them, based their decision on an internal study of data from the past five years that demonstrated the importance of standardized tests as an indicator of future success at Princeton.

Princeton’s decision means that Columbia University is now the only Ivy League school not requiring ACT/SAT scores, despite the fact that Columbia claimed that ACT/SAT scores played a “very important” role in their 2024-2025 admissions decisions. This discrepancy remains crucial for students to keep in mind as they prepare their college applications this fall—while more and more universities declare official return to standardized testing policies, the vast majority of schools that still claim to be test optional do still rate ACT/SAT scores as an “important” or “very important” factor in their admissions decisions.

For more information on how schools self-reported their admissions priorities, clickhere.  

For a comprehensive list of all universities requiring ACT/SAT scores, click here. 

For more information about Princeton’s announcement, click here.