According to a recent survey of public and private four-year higher education institutions, the majority of institutions that dropped ACT and/or SAT admission requirements due to the pandemic are unlikely to bring them back. The survey was commissioned by ACT Inc., the owner of the ACT exam, and estimates that around 50 percent of four-year institutions had test-optional policies before the pandemic. Another 30 percent moved from test-required to test-optional in response to the pandemic. However, most of these newly test-optional institutions expressed that they were not at all likely to become test-blind and completely remove test scores from the evaluation of applicants. The most common reason they selected for not being likely to adopt a test-blind policy was that test scores are too useful to completely abandon. Although early evidence suggests that test-optional institutions have greater applicant diversity, whether students who do not submit test scores are admitted, financially assisted, and matriculated at the same levels of those who do submit has not yet been rigorously examined #covid-19 #education
