The Chronicle of Higher Education

This University Piloted Test-Optional Admissions. That Didn’t Last.

On May 27, 2021, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville said it would continue a pilot program that allowed prospective students to choose whether to submit standardized-test scores — a common Covid ...
Columbia Daily Tribune

University of Missouri extends test-optional admission for a year

The University of Missouri System Board of Curators on Thursday extended test-optional admission for undergraduate students for one year at the University of Missouri, Missouri University of Science ...
USA Today

Harvard University becomes latest Ivy League to reinstate SAT, ACT for admissions

Following the footsteps of its Ivy League peers, including Yale, Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that it is reinstating its standardized testing requirement in admissions beginning ...
EdSource

University of California sticks with test-free admissions, won’t replace SAT and ACT with new standardized test

February 12, 2026 - California's Assembly Bill 218 made it possible for childhood abuse victims to sue public agencies up to their 40th birthday or five years after discovering the abuse. This story ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Admissions Tests Hinder Access to Graduate and Professional Schools

University of California President Richard C. Atkinson rattled cages across academe recently when he formally proposed that the university system scuttle the SAT as an undergraduate-admissions ...
New York Post

SUNY drops SAT, ACT testing requirement for admission

The State University of New York will no longer require students to take either the SAT and ACT tests to apply to its four-year undergraduate colleges as enrollment declines. The SUNY board of ...