Test-optional admissions proliferated across higher education during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Common testing sites, like K-12 schools, closed down, curtailing student access. In response, many colleges discarded their admissions testing requirements.
They’ve maintained those test-optional rules even as pandemic-related restrictions have eased. In addition to the broad number of colleges not demanding SAT or ACT scores for the upcoming cycle, 90 institutions have extended their policies through fall 2024, according to FairTest.
