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University of Chicago Drops SAT/ACT Requirements for U.S. Students

posted by chromas on Friday June 15 2018, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the Woohoo!-I'm-a-college-man!-I-am-so-smart!-I-am-so-smart!-S.M.R.T.!-I-mean-S.M.A.R.T.! dept.

takyon writes:

University of Chicago eliminates SAT/ACT requirement

The University of Chicago will no longer require ACT or SAT scores from U.S. students, sending a jolt through elite institutions of higher education as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.

Numerous schools, including well-known liberal arts colleges, have dropped or pared back testing mandates in recent years to bolster recruiting in a crowded market. But the announcement Thursday by the university was a watershed, cracking what had been a solid and enduring wall of support for the primary admission tests among the two dozen most prestigious research universities.

[...] U-Chicago is also expanding financial aid and scrapping in-person admission interviews, which had been optional. Instead, it will allow applicants to send in two-minute video pitches, in an effort to connect with a generation skilled at communicating via cellphone clips.

Also at USA Today and Inside Higher Ed.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @03:51PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @03:51PM (#693543)

    The whole social justice indoctrination crap is just that, crap. Fox News red meat to push the idea that it really is the poor conservatives who are the oppressed minority.

    Just a figment of our imagination? [sott.net] Why does the modern sociopath assume everyone is feeble minded enough to be gaslighted?

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday June 15 2018, @09:08PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday June 15 2018, @09:08PM (#693715) Journal

    Fewer people applying to Evergreen proves your point how?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @10:00PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @10:00PM (#693730)

      Fox News has indoctrinated the non-college educated to think that college is all about brainwashing and social indoctrination. And it has worked, because Fox News viewers do not have a brain to wash, got negative scores on the SAT, and have been proven to become more stupid that they were before they started watching Fox News.

      But at least now our long-suffering intellectual conservatives will have a chance for their equally valid racist, misogynist, climate-denying, and Buick-buying ideas to be heard, and recognized for the insanity they are. Trump University!!!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @04:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 16 2018, @04:44AM (#693854)

        Sounds like whataboutism to me.