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posted by chromas on Friday June 15 2018, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly
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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.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 15 2018, @11:41PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday June 15 2018, @11:41PM (#693763) Journal

    Starting with the fact that TFA is inaccessible in the EU because they can't manage your personal data properly, except if you can use google in which case it's immediately available along with offers to subscribe, wonder at what point in the subscription process they say uh-oh we shouldn't actually have taken your personal data...

    Aren't you glad I added 3 articles to choose from instead of one? All saying about the same thing.

    You can also use archive.is to bust through most scriptwall issues.

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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:37PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 16 2018, @03:37PM (#693978)

    > Aren't you glad I added 3 articles to choose from instead of one? All saying about the same thing.

    Actually the complaint wasn't about SN, nor was it about blocking EU, it was about blocking EU so incompetently that it is trivial to workaround and then displaying a popup advert for subscription to someone in the EU when you have previously said you can't process personal data from the EU.

    I don't really care about "you can't read our stuff because you're in EU", plenty of other sources out there, but "you can't read our stuff because you're in EU, click here to subscribe to read more of it" is just a fail.