At least one Ivy League school is bringing back its standardized testing admissions requirement after scrapping it temporarily.
Dartmouth College announced Monday that it is ending the pandemic era pause that allowed hopeful applicants to skip the dreaded SAT and ACT.
“Beginning with the Class of 2029, Dartmouth will once again require applicants from high schools within the United States to submit results of either the SAT or ACT, with no Dartmouth preference for either test,” the school said in a release published to the school’s website.
The selective New Hampshire school originally got rid of its standardized testing requirement back in June, 2020 while in-person testing was on hold during the pandemic.
“Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our admissions process as well as its value as a predictor of student success at Dartmouth, we are removing the…
