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Many colleges have gone test-optional – here's how that could change the way students are admitted

  • Written by Angela Farmer, Assistant Clinical Professor of Honors Education, Mississippi State University
imageWill 'test-optional' policies help or hurt college applicants?LeoPatrizi/ E+ via Getty Images

Editor’s note: More than two-thirds of U.S. four-year colleges and universities have decided to make the SAT or ACT optional for admission in the fall of 2021, some on a temporary basis, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, two scholars – Angela...

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