Today's 8th Graders Won't Have to Take the SAT If They Apply to Harvard
Today's 8th Graders Won't Have to Take the SAT If They Apply to Harvard
(Bloomberg) -- Harvard College is dropping its requirement for SAT or ACT scores for future applicants as young as those currently in 8th grade.
“Students who do not submit standardized test scores will not be disadvantaged in their application process,” William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid at the Ivy League school, said Thursday in an emailed statement.
The pandemic has altered the way colleges evaluate applicants. Several others, including Columbia University, Amherst College and Cornell University, previously announced the tests would be optional for current high school sophomores, and the University of California system scrapped them entirely.
The current admissions cycle is the second for which students have been able to apply to Harvard without needing standardized tests. The scores are one factor among many considered, Harvard said in the statement. The school, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also announced that it had accepted 7.9% of the 9,406 students who applied under its non-binding early action program.
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