Life imitates art.......................
Posted on 06/14/2018 8:01:34 AM PDT by simpson96
The University of Chicago will no longer require ACT or SAT scores from U.S. students, sending a jolt through elite institutions of higher education as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.
Numerous schools, including well-known liberal arts colleges, have dropped or pared back testing mandates in recent years to bolster recruiting in a crowded market. But the announcement Thursday by the university was a watershed, cracking what had been a solid and enduring wall of support for the primary admission tests among the two dozen most prestigious research universities.
The private university in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood admits fewer than 10 percent of applicants and ranks third on the U.S. News & World Report list of top national universities, after Princeton and Harvard and tied with Yale. It has required prospective freshmen to take a national admission test since 1957. Before that, it screened applicants with its own tests.
U-Chicago is also expanding financial aid and scrapping in-person admission interviews, which had been optional. Instead, it will allow applicants to send in two-minute video pitches, in an effort to connect with a generation skilled at communicating via cellphone clips.
"Testing is not the be-all and the end-all," said James G. Nondorf, U-Chicago's dean of admissions and financial aid. He said he didn't want "one little test score" to end up "scaring students off" who are otherwise qualified.(snip)
With the change in admissions policy will come a significant boost in financial aid. The university is announcing a guarantee of free tuition for students from families with income under $125,000 a year. For most students with annual family income below $60,000, financial aid will cover tuition, fees, room and board. U-Chicago's full price for students without aid is more than $70,000 in the coming school year.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
If you live in Iowa you take the ACT since it’s headquartered in Iowa City.
A thinly veiled way to enact affirmative action without having to deal with the legalities of it. Classic move - if something is hard to achieve, simply lower the standards.
Seriously? Admission on GPA and a 2 minute video clip?
That’s a set up for failure. Unless they get rid of grading classes all together and just take money and hand out a graduation certificate. Which is another set up for failure when they try to take on an actual challenging job.
“We don’t care what you know! We care about how gullible you are!”
This is the old “mist on a mirror” approach. If you can place mist on a mirror using your own breath, you get in..
I worked there for a summer grading ACTs! (Circa 1988)
It sucked. It was pretty mindless sweat shop answer checking.
Everybody gets a trophy!
We just keep moving downward....
So he admits that all those decades requiring testing were in error.
One needs to get rid of the SAT test in order to discriminate against Asians and Whites.
Race to the bottom - ready, set, go!
Univ of Chicago used to be a prestigious school ...
Life imitates art.......................
Baloney. This jackwagon just wants to "qualify" minorities who are incompetent.
The dumb-ing down of America continues.
I have one in college, one looking to go to college next yr, and a 13 yo. My wife is a teacher. Our houshold has some insight here.
There’s a lot of good, academically qualified kids out there. Problem is they’re only about 10% of the population(my estimate), of that, about 1-2% are highly qualified.
We get a University of Chicago flier about every two weeks, (and phone calls too). Maybe their problem is with geography? Maybe the problem is less highly academically qualified students?
You think I want to send my kid to Chicago to go to school? Sorry NOT!
I can see the dumb-ing down all around us, and it seems to be picking up steam. Why cut a standard of admissions which measures ability, unless you may not be getting enough students to choose from who meet those requirements?
???
Curious to this move of their’s.
Merit is racist.
> he didn’t want “one little test score” to end up “scaring students off” who are otherwise qualified <
I wonder what he means by “otherwise qualified” (rhetorical question).
A lot of business schools have stopped requiring the GMAT. Its ability to predict success in graduate business classes has been questioned.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.