Harvard and Caltech plans to reintroduce SAT/ACT as mandatory requirements for admission

Highlights: Harvard & Caltech to bring back standardized tests

• Harvard and Caltech plan to re-introduce standardized test requirements.
• The universities plan to reinstate SAT or ACT as mandatory admission requirements.
• The new Harvard policy will apply to students applying for fall 2025.
• Caltech will now require students to submit scores when applying for fall intake 2024.

                                                                                                                                         

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New changes announced by Schools in the US

The elite schools in the US plan on reinstating standardized test requirements. Harvard and Caltech announced that they would bring back the SAT/ACT as mandatory test requirements for admissions.

Some of the changes announced are listed below:

• Students willing to apply to Harvard in the fall of 2025 will be required to follow the new policy.
• Students willing to apply to Caltech in fall 2024 will be required to submit scores at the time of applying.
• The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) re-imposed the test requirements two years ago.

 

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How will the test score requirement benefit the education system in the US?

Some of the benefits of the latest changes announced by the top universities in the US are as follows:  

• The tests help identify talented students from under-resourced schools.
• The SAT/ACT turned out to be highly predictive of post-college outcomes.
• The test scores exhibit a candidate’s talents, contributions, and skills to the community.
• The scores help analyze a student’s academic competence for college work.
• The tests give the colleges more context about student profiles from rural backgrounds compared to those from their high schools.

 

 

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