Stanford University to resume requiring SAT, ACT for undergraduate applications

Stanford University, after temporarily dropping a requirement for undergraduate applicants to submit the SAT or ACT, will start requiring the controversial college-admissions tests for students applying in the fall of 2025.

The Bay Area school was among many that paused the requirement during the pandemic, and joins other elite universities including Harvard College and Yale University in reinstating the standardized tests.

“Test scores represent only one part of a holistic review of each applicant to the university, for which academic potential is the primary criterion for admission,” Stanford said Friday in announcing the return to required tests.

Amid the widespread pausing of the test requirement during the pandemic, many schools opted to drop the tests, or make them optional, over concerns around lower average scores for lower-income, Black and Latino students than for White, Asian and higher-income pupils.

Stanford, like other schools bringing back the testing mandate, pointed to its own research supporting use of the tests, saying a review by its faculty committee on undergraduate admissions found performance on standardized exams was “an important predictor of academic performance at Stanford.”

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