![]() ![]() In an email to University World News laying out the timeline that led to the decision, Joanna McWilliams, communications strategist for UC President Michael V Drake, MD, explained that this past September, a study group recommended against producing an in-house option over “concerns regarding potential bias, moderate predictive power, and the adverse effects of high-stakes testing”, which are the same concerns critics have long made of the SATs and ACTs, both of which are commercial products. This decision announced last week puts the University of California System (UCS), which also includes UC Davis and UC Irvine, in line with approximately 85 other colleges and universities, including Ivy League member Cornell University and the City University of New York, as well as Oregon State University (OSU) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts. ![]() Tweet The University of California System – the largest and most prestigious public university system in the United States, which includes such top-tier schools as Berkeley and UCLA – has announced that it will stop using both the Standard Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT) for admissions and it will not use a test developed in-house either. ![]()
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