The University of California appears to be inching closer to dropping the SAT and ACT tests as a requirement for admission. The UC Berkeley Chancellor and the UC System Provost along with the UC Santa Cruz Chancellor have announced their support for dropping the tests according to the an AP report.
The UC system has a faculty group reviewing the research on the use of the standardized tests for admissions, but the university leaders announced their positions before the faculty committee completed their work. Among the reasons for moving away from admissions requirement is the growing sense that the tests are unfair. The UC system Provost cited his objection to tests that compare students to one another to produce high and low scores and his more favorable attitude toward standardized tests that measure what students have mastered in academic courses required for UC admission. The UC Santa Cruz Chancellor supported dropping the tests in favor of a more holistic approach to assessing students for admission.
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