Click here to sign up. To subscribe, call 904.819.3430 Order Home Delivery Online Order or renew daily and Sunday home delivery of the Record for one year. About a fifth of U.S. colleges and universities do not require the SAT or ACT for some or all high school applicants, a survey released Wednesday found, reflecting the latest assaults on admissions tests. A survey released Wednesday by FairTest, a group urging less use of standardized tests, found that 383 four-year colleges and universities do not strictly require high school applicants to submit SAT I or ACT scores.
Public institutions dominate the list.
But there also are about 25 selective private colleges, such as Mount Holyoke and Middlebury, and schools specializing in such areas as art or religion. Fewer than 70 schools require no tests, or make them optional. The last FairTest count, three years ago, identified 280 test-optional schools. Atkinson wants students judged by what they learned, not how they scored. Last June, elite Mount Holyoke College declared applicants no longer need submit scores from the SAT test of reasoning.