The “Test Optional” Trap: How COVID-19 Continues to Kill in 2024 College Admissions
[Updated from 2020 and 2022] For four years before MIT, Dartmouth, and Yale restituted their required SAT/ACT entrance exam policies in 2024*, CPE has been warning students and parents not to fall into the seductive “test optional” trap, COVID-19’s pernicious effor to wipe out a chunk of candidates in the world of college admissions. The cancellation of long-scheduled SATs and ACTs in 2020 and continuing into 2022 and even 2023 forced many colleges at all levels to waive the entrance exam requirement for applicants, thereby making those schools “test optional.” It’s the only socially just and fair decision that could […]
