Landmark decision by UC to drop SAT & ACT scores for admissions & scholarships

UC system announced the new policy on April 1, 2020, for all incoming freshmen in the fall of 2021. In May of 2020, the regent's board extended the policy for the years 2022 and 2023.

Students are now free from providing SAT & ACT scores to study abroad in places like the U.S. Now even the low-income students can also compete with the privileged ones.

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The University of California won’t take SAT & ACT scores anymore submitted by students with admissions & scholarship applications. UC has decided to stop fighting a judge’s injunction issued last year barring it from considering the scores for admission.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, these scores won’t be considered by the UC even if the students submit them. Students, as well as activists, have long argued that these tests put minority & underprivileged at great risk.

Critics argue that these test questions contain deep-rooted bias that only privileged students are better qualified to pass these tests. These critics also claim that rich students take exorbitant prep classes to boost their scores. Poor students can’t afford such classes.

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Amanda Savage, an attorney representing the students, said, “ensures that the university will not revert to its planned use of the SAT and ACT - which its own regents have admitted are racist metrics,".

Incoming students didn’t submit the controversial test scores of SAT or ACT after the settlement reached earlier this month. The school said, “the new settlement will provide certainty for students & their families, counselors & high schools”.

Highlights of this agreement

• In May 2020, The UC Board of Regents voted to drop the SAT & ACT in admissions & agreed to add a new test by 2025.
• According to this new settlement, UC can’t consider planning SAT or ACT scores after 2025.
• The settlement also prevents UC from considering SAT or ACT scores while awarding scholarships.
• But UC can consider SAT or ACT scores for course placements that pose fewer consequences.
• The University will also have to pay $1.25 million in legal fees to attorneys for representing students in the lawsuits according to the clauses of settlement.

Student's attorney, “Marci Lerner Miller says, “The makeup of this year’s applicants already show that students are no longer deterred from applying based on their inability to access standardized testing,”

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