Colleges are dropping their SAT subject test requirement
Students applying to some top New England colleges will have fewer tests to take, as a growing number of colleges will no longer require applicants to submit scores from SAT subject tests.
In the past year, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams Colleges have dropped the subject test requirement, reports The Boston Globe. Columbia University first announced the new policy this spring after saying that the exams lend little insight into students’ readiness, and can be detrimental to low-income and minority students.
“We want to make the application process as fair to all students as possible,” Mary Dettloff, a spokeswoman for Williams College, told The Globe. “We felt like we weren’t getting any valuable data from the SAT II scores to help us.”
It costs $26 to register for a test date, then $20 per test. On top of that, there are extra fees for sending scores to colleges. Those costs can be prohibitive for low-income students, not to mention the added expenses of test-prep books and courses.
You can read the full Globe story here.
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