Caltech now joins several elite universities in bringing back a requirement for standardized testing. Officials say it’s helpful in assessing freshman applicants.
Caltech on Thursday, April 11, restored its standardized testing requirement for entering students, only four years after disbanding it, joining Harvard on the same day in bringing back the policy.
In reinstating the standardized testing requirement, Caltech reaffirms its commitment as a community of scientists and engineers to using all relevant data in its decision-making processes. Caltech said more than 95% of its most recently enrolled class had taken the exams. Such tests include ACT — American College Testing exam — or SAT. Another example includes Advanced Placement exams.
By 2022, the institute wanted to continue assessing the value of a moratorium on admissions. The extended moratorium followed a faculty study that found “standardized test scores have little to no power in predicting students’ performance in the first-term mathematics and physics classes that first-year students must take as part of Caltech’s core curriculum.”
Harvard had initially said it was going to maintain its test-optional policy through the entering class of the fall of 2026.
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