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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: 2) by VLM on Friday June 15 2018, @08:50PM
Dropout rates tend to vary a bit by race, I would expect the grad rates to be more traditionally "elitist".
Its been a part of the business model at all schools for generations, admit a huge number of people of the "correct" groups who won't make it thru the first semester, to shut the diversity people up. Then at graduation ceremony its all whites, jews, and asians.