Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Zvezdelina Stankova:
In the midst of the Covid pandemic, the University of California system in 2020 abolished the requirement that applicants submit an SAT or ACT score. That was contrary to the unanimous recommendation of the Standardized Testing Task Force, a faculty group that had studied the issue for more than a year. This temporary policy became permanent under pressure from the state of California.
As mathematics professors at UC Berkeley, we have seen the results: a yawning preparation gap among students that undermines the goals of access and equity for which the change to a test-blind admissions system was made.
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