Yale Plans on Requiring SATs For Admissions in Fall 2024
Jose Nino
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On February 22, 2024, Yale University announced that it will be requiring standardized test scores yet again for students interested in attending Yale University in the Fall or 2025.
In effect, the Ivy League school is canceling its test-optional policy, which was crafted in 2020 in response to the Wuhan Virus, per the university Admissions Office website.
From here on out , undergraduate applicants must feature their scores from at least one of the following standardized tests: SAT, ACT, Advanced Placement, or International Baccalaureate.
Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions, said to Yale News during an interview on February 22 that test scores do showcase a strong overview of a student’s academic performance.
“Simply put, students with higher scores have been more likely to have higher Yale GPAs, and test scores are the single greatest predictor of a student’s performance in Yale courses in every model we have constructed,” Quinlan declared.
Yale has experienced a 66% increase in applications since 2020, which includes over 57,000 in 2024, but the growth did not include “many more applicants with strong academic preparation,” he stated.
Quinlan responded to people’s misgivings about standardized tests making it more difficult for minorities and other allegedly disadvantaged groups from being accepted into Yale. He stressed that his experience has been contrary to conventional wisdom.
“… including test scores as one component of a thoughtful whole-person review process can help increase the diversity of the student body rather than decrease it,” he remarked.
Yale is the second Ivy League school to bring back the standardized test requirement for undergraduate admissions. Dartmouth College got the ball rolling with respect to this trend on February 5.
“Informed by new research, Dartmouth will reactivate the standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission beginning with applicants to the Class of 2029,” the college announced early in February.
Both institutions stressed that applicants’ test scores are only one aspect of what they weigh in when deciding whether to send out an acceptance letter.
“Our process is, of course, very selective, but it is also holistic and contextual. Each applicant is considered as an individual, and officers conduct a whole-person review of each file,” Quinlan stated.
Over 1,900 colleges and universities had optional test admissions policies in 2023, per analysis by The College Fix.
Making tests optional is one way the anti-white crowd wants to make universities less white and have them filled with unqualified candidates just to meet racial quotas. This is unacceptable and will play a major role in the US’s competency decline if its new generation of elites are filled with unqualified individuals.
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