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January 11, 2018 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xh9VOJkkx3g/more-colleges-than-ever-have-test-optional-admissions-policies
More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies
Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores. On Jan. 10, FairTest, a Boston-based organization that has been pushing back against America's testing regime since 1985, announced that the number of colleges that are test-optional has now surpassed 1,000. From a report: This milestone means that more than one-third of America's four-year nonprofit colleges now reject the idea that a test score should strongly determine a student's future. The ranks of test-optional institutions include hundreds of prestigious private institutions, such as George Washington, New York University, Wesleyan University and Wake Forest University. The list also includes hundreds of public universities, such as George Mason, San Francisco State and Old Dominion.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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