Not elite schools, but the U Alabama system (Alabama, UAH, UAB) to transition to test required over the next few years:
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Define elite - ha ha. I’m glad to see. I wish everyone required the SAT, simply because it’s hard to rate schools, rigors, grades, etc. - and it’s an equalizer.
I hope more continue.
It is interesting (and maybe this is an incorrect observation) that at the public school level, the requirement seems more in the south than the north.
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IMO testing policies at publics are being driven by politics in certain states, but alas this isn’t the political thread so I’ll leave it at that. I expect the test score hurdle implemented at Alabama will be relatively low, but time will tell.
For example, at UTK, the min test score for in-state guaranteed admission is ACT 24 (along with 4.0 UT core GPA and EA app.)
I meant no shade with the ‘elite’ comment, this thread (and its title) has just been so focused on the highly rejective schools. 
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For the sake of the discussion in this thread, the Ivy+ (8 ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke & UChicago), as defined by Opportunity Insights, are the schools that have been proven to give the greatest opportunity to earn in the top 1%, get into elite graduate schools and to work at prestigious firms.
I was joking …obviously.
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Caltech, Hopkins and Northwestern should be included, imo.
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I thought this was interesting on the usefulness of the SAT, particularly for non-high income students
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