A majority of colleges and universities in the United States have stopped using SAT scores in their admissions process. Scores are either optional now or, in some cases like California’s UC system, not accepted at all. The reasons for this are clear to everyone involved. There has been a concerted effort by the left to ditch SATs (and any admissions tests) on the grounds that the tests are racist.
In California, the path to ditching the SAT started with a 2019 lawsuit brought by activists and the Compton School District. As the NY Times reported in 2021, “The plaintiffs said that the college entrance tests are biased against poor and mainly Black and Hispanic students — and that by basing admissions decisions on those tests, the system illegally discriminates against applicants on the basis of their race, wealth and disability.” When the UC systems ditched the tests a…
