Harvard and Caltech plans to reintroduce SAT/ACT as mandatory requirements for admission

Highlights: Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology reintroduced SAT/ACT tests!

• Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology announced the reintroduction of SAT/ACT for admissions.
• Students applying for admission in 2025 must take the SAT/ACT tests as admission requirements.
• Elite schools such as Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown are using tests to recognize talented students from underprivileged backgrounds.
• California Institute of Technology will now require students to submit scores when applying in 2024.

 

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SAT or ACT as requirements for admission

Harvard and Caltech plan to reintroduce a new policy for students looking for admissions in 2025. For several years, these tests were optional for students. Elite schools like Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown all said it is good to bring back testing as it allows talented students from underprivileged backgrounds to be recognized as likely to succeed at the schools.

 

Hopi Hoekstra, dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said, “We know that talent is universal, but opportunity is not.” He said, “We believe in strengthening our ability to find the best students with this change.”

 

The oldest and richest US college, Harvard, said, “Students' test scores are reviewed with other information about an applicant’s experiences, talents, skills, and contributions to their communities.

 

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Changes in recruitment.

Elite US schools plan to reintroduce test requirements. Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology announced that they would reintroduce the SAT/ACT as mandatory test requirements for admissions. Students willing to apply to Harvard University in the fall of 2025 must follow the new policy, and students willing to apply to Caltech in the fall of 2024 must submit scores at the time of application.

 

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Benefits of Test requirements

The tests help identify talented students, giving colleges more context about student profiles from rural backgrounds than those from high schools. These scores also help to analyze a student’s academic competence for college work.

 

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