Yale joins the ever-growing list of universities reinstating SAT/ACT score requirements. Yale’s decision, like its fellow Ivy Leaguer Dartmouth, follows a reevaluation of its COVID-necessitated “test optional” policy. Further study of the “test optional” policy revealed it disporportionally denied admissions to lower-income families when test scores could have improved their overall eligibility.
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While standardized tests are optional at many universities and colleges, many top schools are still taking test scores into consideration.
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