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Admissions association will help lead test-optional enrollment study

April 20, 2022

The spread of the coronavirus turbocharged the test-optional and test-free movement, the latter of which refers to colleges that refuse to review assessment scores whatsoever.

As the pandemic shuttered the typical sites where students test, colleges adopted these policies, albeit some temporarily. Now, more than 1,800 colleges are not mandating entrance exams for fall 2022, including those institutions that were test-optional before the pandemic, according to FairTest, a group advocating for minimal use of such assessments.

Many institutions are experimenting with test-optional admissions and determining effects on enrollment, a step before some colleges make the policy permanent.

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