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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @06:03PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @06:03PM (#693616)

    Probably because you are clueless a grade school dropout. UChicago is very prominent in the fields of physics, economics, and the law.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:57AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:57AM (#693872) Journal

    Also medicine, sociology, archaeology (esp. Near east), and chemistry.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:49AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:49AM (#693912) Homepage
    Or maybe my degrees come from a university that pretty much everyone in the world who's heard of what a university is would list as a top 3 university?
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