U of C System No Longer To Use ACT/SAT
As part of the settlement, the University of California system will pay $1.25 million in attorney fees to the lawyers who represented the plaintiffs.
The nine campuses of the University of California system will no longer consider standardized testing scores as part of the admission process beginning in the fall of 2021.
Under the settlement, the university, which enrolls some 225,000 undergraduate students, said it won’t consider SAT or ACT scores sent along with admissions applications until 2025. The university further stated that it had no current plan to consider the scores after 2025.
The settlement specifies that the university can still use SAT and ACT scores to determine course placement after the students are accepted. But the nine campuses will no longer use the test scores to determine how to award scholarships.
The lawsuit was filed against the university on Dec. 10, 2019 by several students and groups, including Chinese for Affirmative Action, College Access Plan, College Seekers, Community Coalition, Dolores Huerta Foundation, and Little Manila Rising. The Compton Unified School District filed a similar lawsuit on the same day. The two cases were subsequently merged.
On Aug. 31, 2020, the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda, ordered the university to stop using the SAT and ACT test results for admissions or scholarship decisions while the lawsuit was pending. The university appealed the decision and the appeal remains unresolved.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 24, 2021 2:36 AM
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Mein University of California Kanzler.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 16, 2021 9:32 PM
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All you gays who go a 8 on the ACT can now go to college.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 20, 2021 5:49 PM
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The university has averred that standardized tests discriminate against low-income Black and Latino students; its evidence is that these students tend to perform worse on the SAT and ACT than students from other racial and ethnic groups. If we were to think about this assertion rationally instead of emotionally, we would have to face what California has done: consigned its most vulnerable students to some of the worst K–12 schools in America. There can be no more obvious example of state-sponsored discrimination than the condition of these schools, which, decade after decade, have robbed students of 13 years and given them little in return. All the standardized tests do is reveal the obvious outcome of our cruelty. Saying it’s the tests’ fault is like feeding children a poisoned sundae and then blaming the cherry on top for making them sick.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 23, 2021 10:33 PM
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Is it because students now are too dumb to make a passing score on the SAT or ACT? Thanks, teachers!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 23, 2021 10:40 PM
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They need to admit more whites, blacks, and Hispanics.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 24, 2021 12:48 AM
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The real problem with these tests is that they can be dramatically increased though coaching---which the rich can afford and the poor cannot.
And grades in high school are a much more accurate predictor of success in college anyway.
Paul Tough's book The Year That Really Matter goes through the data in great detail, but remains very readable.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 24, 2021 2:36 AM
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