Every year, thousands of college-bound high school students take one of two standardized performance tests: The American College Test or the Scholastic Assessment Test. Although most colleges and ...

The University of California will continue using a standardized-test-blind approach to admissions through at least 2025, according to a settlement reached between the University and plaintiffs Friday.

One of the major possibly semi-permanent effects of the pandemic is that a huge number of colleges and universities have dropped requiring prospective students from submitting courses on the SAT or ...

GREENWICH, Connecticut (WABC) -- More than 100 students will have to retake the SAT exam after they were mistakenly given the wrong test. There were 114 students who took the test Dec. 2 that was ...

The University of California has slammed the door shut on using any standardized test for admissions decisions, announcing Thursday that faculty could find no alternative exam that would avoid the ...

The University of California will no longer consider SAT or ACT scores in admission or scholarship decisions under a settlement reached Friday with students. The university’s Board of Regents ...

The SAT test weighs heavily on our collective imagination—and most everyone can picture the nerve-wracking scene of students sitting at desks, bubbling in Scantron forms with a No. 2 pencil, while ...

This story was updated at 4:01 p.m. to include additional information. For the foreseeable future, standardized testing will not be a part of freshman admissions for the University of California. That ...

Correction: Evelyn Minjares-Carrillo's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this article. Melanie Urgiles considered Johns Hopkins University a “reach” school. The first-generation Latina ...

Generations of American teens have taken the SAT, a blood-pressure-raising multi-hour exam they are told could make or break their academic futures. The longest-enduring standardized college ...

In November 2022, Intelligencer published this story about MIT’s decision to require applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores again, two years after nearly every elite college in the country made test ...

The SAT will go completely digital by 2024 amid questions about whether college admissions tests are fair, or even necessary. By Stephanie Saul The SAT will soon be taken exclusively on a computer, ...