From the Washington Post: Harvard College will require applicants to submit standardized test scores once again, becoming the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic. The university had previously said it would remain test-optional through the 2025-2026 application cycle. But on Thursday, it said students applying to the college for fall 2025 admission — hoping to join the graduating class of 2029 — will now have to submit standardized test scores as part of their admissions package.
Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League school to reinstate the requirement after making the choice optional during the pandemic. Dartmouth College, Yale and Brown universities announced similar changes in recent weeks, after officials cited data suggesting that SAT and ACT scores were the best predictors of students’ academic performance at their schools — and that making the tests optional could further disadvantage applicants from more challenging backgrounds...
Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/11/harvard-reinstates-sat-act-admissions-requirement/.
Note that the UC Regents were also told by an Academic Senate report "that making the tests optional could further disadvantage applicants from more challenging backgrounds." But they abolished the tests anyway.
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