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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @06:03PM (2 children)
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
Also medicine, sociology, archaeology (esp. Near east), and chemistry.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:49AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves