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US colleges bring back standardized testing after finding test-optional policies hurt minority students
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Experts are weighing in on the growing list of universities who have decided to bring back SAT and ACT testing requirements for first-year college applications.
Nikolas Lanum is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.
Schein suggested that competition for students has increased because of the downward birth curve and increasing costs. Therefore, dropping testing requirements may have been viewed as a way to increase the applicant pool.
He also blamed the elimination of standardized testing on a narrative circulating in academia that some minority students do not do as well as White and Asian students because of poor schooling or cultural bias in the test.
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