UC abruptly suspends plan to reconsider SAT in admissions

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Set us as preferred The University of California admissions board has voted to rescind — for now — its plan to study whether to resume SAT or ACT requirements in admissions, a move that leaves the direction of one of the university’s most closely watched debates unclear a day before the Board of Regents meets in San Francisco.UC’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, known as BOARS, announced last month that it would convene two work groups through next year: one to weigh the role of standardized tests in admissions, the other to reexamine high school course requirements for acceptance to UC.At a Friday meeting, the board voted to pull back on the plan, and the links that explained it — which appeared on the UC website late last week — have been removed.There is no replacement plan as of yet, according to two members of the board who attended the meeting, and several UC professors who are aware of the decision and who have been advocating either for or against testing requirements.The decision shelves, possibly for months, a process UC said would be a careful, evidence-driven review that was praised by UC President James B.

Milliken as “comprehensive.”It is unclear why the plan was suspended.A UC spokesperson and the chair of the admissions board, UC Riverside professor David Volz, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The plan had faced criticism on multiple fronts — and cast UC in the national spotlight over the use of high-stakes standardized testing in college admissions.UC went test-optional in 2020 and later test-free after a unanimous regent vote rooted in part in concerns that the test screened out students of color who often lacked test prep resources and that scores correlated too heavily to race and family wealth than readiness.UC — the nation’s most prominent public ...