Colleges Are Backing Off SAT, ACT Scores — But The Exams Will Be Hard To Shake

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Amid the pandemic, more and more colleges across the U.S. are announcing plans to de-emphasize the role that test scores play in admissions — even if only for next year's applicants.

Every day that Sadie Bograd, 16, enters Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington, Ky., she's greeted by a sign that lists the ACT scores needed to get into several colleges. She rarely thinks about this daily reminder, she says; it's almost subconscious at this point.

Bograd says that even among her friends who have done well on the ACT or SAT, they don't believe the exams to be accurate or reliable measures of intelligence, and that the tests often bring more stress to their lives.She's a rising senior, so she gets a daily barrage of college material in her inbox.

 

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