Slow Walk

The San Francisco Chronicle carries a "timeline" of what is supposed to happen with regards to the SAT issue:

July to September 2026: The Academic Senate’s influential Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, known as BOARS, created the admissions roadmap and will spend the summer recruiting experts for Workgroup 1. This panel of at least 13 professors, four administrators and one K-12 representative will consider the pros and cons of restoring standardized test scores to UC’s admissions criteria. 

BOARS will also recruit experts for Workgroup 2: at least 13 UC professors, one from California State University, four administrators and three K-12 representatives. This group will study whether the combination of high school courses needed to qualify for UC admission, known as “A-G” requirements — history/social science, English, math, science, foreign language, arts and an elective — adequately prepare students for success at UC.

May 15, 2027: Final reports are due from both workgroups. (The two are A-G workgroup and the SAT workgroup.)

June 4, 2027: The workgroups will present their reports to BOARS.

Mid-June 2027: BOARS will share the groups’ findings and recommendations with “stakeholders.” These include UC admissions staff, students, and representatives of public schools, CSU, community colleges, private universities and higher education nonprofits. 

July 2, 2027: BOARS will discuss the stakeholders’ comments.

July 31, 2027: This is the deadline for BOARS to approve the workgroups’ recommendations and, if it does so, to send them to the Academic Senate’s executive committee, known as the Academic Council.

August-October 2027: The Academic Council will oversee a “systemwide review” of the recommendations.

November 2027: If the council approves the recommendations, it will share them with the Assembly of the Academic Senate, a group of about 60 leading professors who consider legislative issues affecting more than one campus.

If the Assembly approves the recommendations, it will send them to UC President James Milliken and Provost Katherine Newman.

Milliken will then decide whether to forward the recommendations to the regents.

Early 2028: If the regents receive recommendations to change how high school students apply to UC, such as requiring them to submit SAT/ACT scores, the board is likely to discuss and vote on those changes during the first half of the year. 

Fall 2028: If the regents have voted to reinstate admissions tests, high school students would have to submit their scores now to enter as freshmen in fall 2029. 

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Source of timeline: https://www.sfchronicle.com/college-admissions/article/uc-sat-act-return-explained-22339345.php.