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If You Thought Colleges Making the SAT Optional Would Level the Playing Field, Think Again - Commentary

January 19, 2018

Kelly Ochs Rosinger, assistant professor of education, Pennsylvania State University, writes: When colleges and universities began to make the SAT an optional part of the admissions process, the hope was that it would expand access to the nation’s most selective institutions to groups that had historically been shut out. The reality is – at least at selective liberal arts colleges – the decision by a growing number of colleges to make the SAT optional does not appear to be the great equalizer that many hoped it would be.

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