High school students applying to the University of Texas are now 'encouraged to submit SAT/ACT scores, but it is not required.'
A 1955 University of Texas memo examined how adopting standardized testing would suppress the number of Black students at the university. Original memo is at UT's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Photo and digital markup by Asher Price/Axiosof the admissions process as they try to figure out how to attract a diverse student body.
Officially, the university dropped the testing requirement to ensure that testing limitations related to the COVID-19 pandemic did not affect a student's ability to apply.Flashback: After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required schools and universities to integrate, University of Texas regents and segregationist politiciansLess than two weeks after the Brown ruling, in May 1954, H. Y. McCown, the university's admissions dean, wrote to university president Logan WilsonUniversity administrators adopted a selective admissions policy based around standardized testing, which they calculated would suppress the number of Black students they were forced to admit.
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