Princeton and Stanford drop requirements for essay testing

Dave_Berry
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:03:42 +0000

"Princeton and Stanford universities on Thursday became the latest prominent schools to stop requiring aspiring students to submit an essay score from the ACT or SAT.

Stanford’s dean of admissions and financial aid, Richard Shaw, said in an email that the school would “strongly recommend” that applicants submit an essay score from one of the two admissions tests. But the mandate is gone, starting with students who apply for entry in 2019. Shaw said the university in California’s Silicon Valley will seek alternative methods to promote good writing.

Princeton, the Ivy League university in New Jersey, added a twist to its policy shift: All applicants must submit a graded writing sample from high school. It would prefer that work be in English or history." …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/07/05/princeton-drops-requirement-that-prospective-students-take-sat-or-act-essay-test/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3371913788db

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