After making the SAT optional, colleges study the results. “It has been really illuminating,” one Ivy League admissions director says.
Many colleges stopped requiring the SAT or ACT for admission during the pandemic. Now they're analyzing the results.As the deadline to submit college applications approached last year, Hilary Cabrera Orozco braced for disappointment.
“It’s a sea change in terms of how admissions decisions are being made,” said Robert Schaeffer, the executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, which is critical of the way standardized testing is used. “The pandemic created a natural experiment. Colleges were forced to see how test optional worked.”
But many of the most competitive colleges, including those in the Ivy League, are still gathering data, watching to see how the experiment turns out. The effects were immediate, Burdick said. Like many other colleges and universities, Cornell was inundated with applications — roughly 71,000 compared to 50,000 in a typical year.
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