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University of California Will Not Consider SAT or ACT Scores for Fall 2022 Applicants

Breaking News: University of California Will Not Consider SAT or ACT Scores for Fall 2022 Applicants
Sara Calvert Kubrom

Written by Sara Calvert-Kubromon April 26th, 2021

Sara Calvert-Kubrom has held in a variety of positions in higher education, starting with her time advising students and planning academic events as part of her work in the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Boston College. From there, she became a lead administrator of the N.U. in Program, Northeastern University’s freshman study abroad program, where she collaborated with the office of admission on all student enrollment initiatives and oversaw multiple program elements, including student and professional staff in five countries and residence life and student affairs programming and policy. Most recently, Sara was an admissions officer at her undergraduate alma mater, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. While working at L&C, Sara managed the college’s admissions decision release process, recruited students predominantly from the East Coast, Arizona, and California, managed and trained new admissions counselors, and read thousands of applications. Sara holds a bachelor’s in Hispanic Studies and Sociology & Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College and a Master of Social Work from Boston College.

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After a year of evolving changes and news out of California, the UC system has announced it will continue its practice of not considering SAT or ACT scores for students applying to fall of 2022. What does this mean? The SAT and ACT will not be used in the admission process nor in the merit scholarship review process for applicants to any UC campus. The UC admission website does note, though, that students who choose to submit test scores as part of their application can later use those scores “as an alternative method of fulfilling minimum requirements for eligibility or for course placement” after they enroll.  But those scores will not be considered by the application readers making admission decisions. As mentioned in our past articles about UC testing policies, it is likely that the UCs will not use a standardized test akin to the SAT or ACT until at least the fall of 2024, but we will be monitoring their policies closely.
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