“The Commission encourages institutions to consider dropping the admission test requirements if it is determined that the predictive utility of the test or the admission policies of the institution(such as open access) support that decision….” (p.7, Italics added by the author) So reads The Report of the Commission on the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission. The report goes on to state “…college admission exams – such as the SAT and ACT – may not be critical to making good admissions decisions at many of the colleges and universities that use them”(p.7) This document also opines that minimum test scores for merit aid eligibility should be done away with; that test scores should be eliminated from the US News and World Report college rankings issue; that predicting first-year grades for ESL is extremely difficult; and that the College Board’s AP tests and the IB tests are better indicators of academic performance. Other recommendations and findings are also included in this 50+ page report. Check here to find the almost 800 schools that do NOT use the SAT or ACT as an admission tool.
