{"id":386632,"date":"2019-06-12T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=386632"},"modified":"2019-06-12T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T19:56:43","slug":"university-drops-first-year-admission-standardized-test-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/university-drops-first-year-admission-standardized-test-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"University drops first-year admission standardized test requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Applicants for first-year admission to the University are no longer required to submit any standardized test results to the Office of Admissions<\/a>. With this move to test-optional admissions, the University will continue to review and consider test scores for those applicants who want to submit them, but any applicant can also choose to be evaluated only on high school grades, coursework rigor, essays, achievements, community contributions, recommendations,\u00a0and interviews.<\/p>\n

Since 2011, the admissions policy has been test-flexible, where applicants didn\u2019t need to take the SAT or ACT, but needed to submit at least one form of a standardized test score\u2014most often Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and national or international exams\u2014to be considered for admission. Vice Provost for Enrollment Initiatives and Dean of Admissions Jonathan Burdick says that under this test-flexible policy, hundreds of well-qualified students who never took the SAT or ACT enrolled, and the high selectivity, retention, and graduation rates over the past decade indicate that this approach is well-founded.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring our test-flexible years, we also discovered that optional standardized tests added little extra value to our review process,\u201d says Burdick. \u201cEven well-constructed tests don\u2019t lead to better decisions, and the cost to students having to take and submit those extra exams outweighs any benefit to us. The burden has been greatest on our first-generation and low-income applicants with excellent high school grades and lower scores. As they have been enrolling and succeeding here, we know that other applicants denied based in part on lower test scores might have thrived here, too. We want all high-achieving students to have equivalent opportunity at Rochester.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new test-optional policy<\/a> will be reflected in the application materials for the fall 2020 first-year class, and Rochester admissions counselors will provide more information to high school counselors and potential applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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