Here’s Why Colleges Are Quickly Dropping SAT and ACT Essay Requirements
16th July 2018
“Given the significant growth in free school-day testing, it’s important to enable students from low-income families to take advantage of the tests already offered by their school districts and not place an undue burden on them to go in separately outside of normal school hours,” Brown Dean of Admission Logan Powell said after his school abandoned the standard. “Our goal is that for any talented student interested in Brown, the application process is not a deterrent — and we don’t want this test to be a barrier to their application.”
Uh, yeah. For ‘low income’ read ‘fashionable minority’.