African American teenage girl sitting at the desk in a classroom holding a pencil and looking down at the paper in front of her. In April, Harvard University announced that it would again require ...

There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

Every year, millions of high schoolers prepare for the arduous process of college admissions. Most will take either the SAT or the ACT, multihour examinations that can feel like the climax of an epic ...

Standardized testing continues to be a critical component in U.S. education and college admissions. This stands true even as formats evolve and new technologies reshape the academic experience. This ...

Earlier this month, Dartmouth College announced that it would reactivate its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission beginning with the class of 2029 applicants. Less than two ...

If you work long enough in education, you see that most academic trends swing through extreme phases like a pendulum. College admissions trends have followed suit, especially regarding standardized ...

Yale University will once again require standardized test scores for undergraduate admissions, after the school found they were a better indicator of a student’s grades in college, reversing a ...

Can you make a better decision with less information? More specifically, can college admissions offices make better decisions without standardized test scores? In the last two decades, more and more ...

Sandhya Kumar ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Winthrop House. In high school I was terrified of the SAT. I felt like it would ...

Princeton University announced this week that it will resume requiring standardized test scores for undergraduates seeking admission to the university beginning with the 2027-28 admission cycle. First ...