UC targets high school course requirements amid SAT debate. What aspiring students need to know
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Set us as preferred As UC embarks on a new and speedier plan to determine whether to reinstate SAT standardized testing, the university’s admissions board is also moving to reexamine key academic requirements that reach even further into California high school classrooms: the exact set of courses students must take to get in.Those requirements dictate what California teenagers learn long before they even fill out an application.Because of the size and influence of UC across the state, the UC course requirements determine aspiring students’ high school careers.On Wednesday, the UC Academic Council, the executive body of the systemwide faculty Academic Senate, ordered the university’s admissions board to review both questions.
The board will study standardized testing first, delivering a report to the council by Feb.12, 2027, the council announced.
The Board of Regents would receive a recommendation on whether to require the SAT or ACT no later than June 2027.The admissions board will then turn to high school course requirements, submitting an initial report to the council in May 2027; the regents would take up any course changes at an unspecified later date.UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu is framing the course review as an open question about “how UC defines and evaluates college readiness in a rapidly changing educational environment,” rather than a move to add or cut requirements.The schedule is faster than it appeared just days ago.Last month, the admissions board rolled out a road map to study both testing and the course requirements, then abruptly withdrew it July 10 without explanation, leaving one of the university’s most closely watched debates in limbo.
Board of Regents Chair Maria Anguiano has since said the admissions debate had focused “too narrowly” on testing and called for “a fresh look at how we define and evaluate college readiness.”UC leaders said the new plan doe...