(Bloomberg) -- Dartmouth College said it would require standardized testing again for applicants to the Ivy League college, the second elite US university to reverse a trend about assessments that was halted during the pandemic. The school said the reactivation is backed by evidence that it can help attract more diverse candidates at time when colleges are trying to assess admissions after the Supreme Court last June said it can’t consider race as a factor. While most peer schools haven’t yet decided about a permanent return to testing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also announced it would reinstate the testing mandate two years ago, also citing the negative impact the pause was having on admissions and student success. The reinstatement reignites a debate over whether testing helps or hurts low-income students. Testing had been criticized for favoring wealthy students who can pay for test prep and tutors. Applications soared when colleges dropped the test during the pandemic, a decision also taken because test centers were closed. Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, but President Sian Beilock, who started last July, commissioned research that confirmed testing is valuable when assessed using local norms at a student’s high school. They found that test scores “represent an especially valuable tool to identify high-achieving applicants from low and middle-income backgrounds; who are first-generation college-bound; as well as students from urban and rural backgrounds,” the school said Monday in a decision first reported by the New York Times. “It is also an important tool as we meet applicants from under-resourced or less familiar high schools across the increasingly wide geography of our applicant pool.” The Dartmouth requirement begins with the class that graduates in 2029, or for current high school juniors. The researchers said the experience with test optional has been “enlightening.” ”Some low-income students appear to withhold test scores even in cases where providing the test score would be a significant positive signal to admissions,’ ‘they wrote. MIT’s dean of admissions Stuart Schmill said at the time of its reinstatement that the school’s research said standardized tests help better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants and “help us identify socioeconomically disadvantaged students who lack access to advanced coursework or other enrichment opportunities that would otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT.” Harvard, which lost the race in admissions case in June, announced in 2021 it would be optional for the next four years.
The school said the reactivation is backed by evidence that it can help attract more diverse candidates at time when colleges are trying to assess admissions after the Supreme Court last June said it can’t consider race as a factor. While most peer schools haven’t yet decided about a permanent return to testing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also announced it would reinstate the testing mandate two years ago, also citing the negative impact the pause was having on admissions and student success.
The reinstatement reignites a debate over whether testing helps or hurts low-income students. Testing had been criticized for favoring wealthy students who can pay for test prep and tutors. Applications soared when colleges dropped the test during the pandemic, a decision also taken because test centers were closed.
Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, but President Sian Beilock, who started last July, commissioned research that confirmed testing is valuable when assessed using local norms at a student’s high school.
They found that test scores “represent an especially valuable tool to identify high-achieving applicants from low and middle-income backgrounds; who are first-generation college-bound; as well as students from urban and rural backgrounds,” the school said Monday in a decision first reported by the New York Times.
“It is also an important tool as we meet applicants from under-resourced or less familiar high schools across the increasingly wide geography of our applicant pool.”
The Dartmouth requirement begins with the class that graduates in 2029, or for current high school juniors. The researchers said the experience with test optional has been “enlightening.”
”Some low-income students appear to withhold test scores even in cases where providing the test score would be a significant positive signal to admissions,’ ‘they wrote.
MIT’s dean of admissions Stuart Schmill said at the time of its reinstatement that the school’s research said standardized tests help better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants and “help us identify socioeconomically disadvantaged students who lack access to advanced coursework or other enrichment opportunities that would otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT.”
Harvard, which lost the race in admissions case in June, announced in 2021 it would be optional for the next four years.
是的。这个系统还是会纠错。大学录取政策应该做个调查，征询所有教授的意见，教授是最有话语权评估学生水平的，如果标准降得太低，教课不得不简单，牛娃得不到应得的教育，名声就会差，长期不利学校
加州大学做过这个研究，结论是SAT成绩对学生大学成绩有很好的预测作用。但是管理层最后却顺从政治压力决定test blind，把负责这个研究的教授们气死了。
还是需要的
sat可以确保不录取分数低的，保证学生质量，除了歌喉名丝高，现在学校gpa不是特别靠谱
你有链接吗？我听说的，是完全相反的故事
难道 SAT 成绩和大学成绩 负关联？ 不可能呀。
和毕业后收入正关联
我在NYTimes一月份关于SAT的那篇文章下面的评论看到加州大学的人说的。下面的链接是他们这个task force的研究报告，里面明确讲了他们发现标考成绩对于预测UC学生大学第一年成绩是比高中GPA更好的指标，对于预测UC学生第一年rentention rate，大学总体成绩和毕业率也是跟高中GPA一样有效的指标。
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/sttf/sttf-report.pdf
对呀，SAT应该作为门槛之一，否则人人可以申请，也是给学校招生办加大压力，申请人太多了，用在审查每个申请人材料的时间会压缩，没办法仔细看材料，会造成录取结果不精准，也给教授带来困扰-教学难度咋办？
加州大学为了降低录取率，取消SAT，增加分母，虽然排名提高，但长远来看，应该是有害的，拭目以待
肯定呀。 倒是可以研究 SAT 1500 分以上的， 是不是 和 毕业后收入正关联？ 大家可以做为参考， 看 SAT 多少分就够了。
你可以去谷歌看看。我只记了个大概趋势
对， 这几年 阿猫阿狗都来淌水了， 导致竞争厉害了很多。
不用怀疑，你觉得不正常的社会变革都是统治阶级得利
不看成绩这个政策，这对于那些道德标兵的有钱白左来说，实在是太划算了。标榜自己推崇diversity，增加minority（这些黑娃长远来看就是被白左们当枪使了）。。。其实真实目的是他们的娃可以不用学习，然后凭借各种connection刷ec刷脸，刷进好学校。。。
不得不承认，美国就是犹太人的玩物，想怎么折腾就怎么折腾，天选天龙人不是吹的。
也就是在美国，这个事情还得专门研究