UC System Suspends Testing Requirements for Fall 2021

[ucbalumnus]

@firmament2x

Right. . . but they also need other colleges to remove the requirement for the 2021 year for UC to follow by removing it for all subsequent years. And by UC shutting it down now doesn’t doesn’t allow a good number of safer ways to take the test.

Either way, UC would need some really selective colleges to remove the requirement in subsequent years, because what good would not requiring the testing be if effectively every other selective college still required it? Numerous apps to UC would still have students reporting the test(s).

Why would UC care about other “really selective” colleges going test-optional or not?

Some other colleges chose to be test-optional for their own reasons, disregarding what other colleges chose to do with SAT/ACT tests.

The only other colleges that the UC system may care about with respect to a permanent test-optional policy would be the CSU system, since there is some motivation to have the base requirements not be too different (the CSUs calculate a formula from recalculated GPA and SAT or ACT score to determine admission within categories by campus, major, state and local residency).

In any case, this is a one year only change.