One of the nation’s largest public universities is grappling with the issue of whether it should require students to prove they know something in order to be admitted.
When the woke tide was at its highest, colleges dropped long-standing requirements that students submit scores from the SAT or ACT, the University of California being among them.
“I believe the test is a racist test,” Jonathan “Jay” Sures, a University of California regent, said in May 2020, according to the Daily Signal. “There’s no two ways about it.”
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Since then, colleges have slowly restored the requirement to address the issues that, as the Daily Signal put it, “students were taking classes but not bothering to learn anything.”
Last week, Yale announced that applicants in its next admissions cycle must submit either an SAT or ACT score. Cornell also requires either the SAT or ACT for new applicants.
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