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DUH: Yale Brings Back Standardized Testing for Admissions After Realizing It Predicts Academic Success

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In a surprising and refreshing shift, Yale has announced it is going to bring back standardized testing, having made the tests optional since the COVID pandemic.

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Why? Well, take a gander:

More from The Wall Street Journal:

Yale University will once again require prospective students to submit standardized test scores after making tests optional for the past four years.

The reinstated requirement, which affects students applying this fall for the class of 2029, makes Yale the second Ivy League school after Dartmouth College to bring standardized tests back after a pandemic-related hiatus. In a departure from past practice, however, Yale said Thursday it will be “test-flexible” by accepting not only the SAT and ACT exams, but scores from the International Baccalaureate as well as Advanced Placement exams.

The New Haven, Conn., school made the decision after it found that standardized test scores from all four of the exams were more predictive of academic success than high school grades. 

The school cited its internal data as well as a study that found that students with the same high school GPA earned significantly higher grades during their freshman year in college if they scored 1600 on the SAT as compared with 1200.

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The tests should never have been optional in the first place. 

The testing predicted academic success better than grades. That's significant.

The buried lede here is the absent test scores hurt lower-income students, who could have used those scores to demonstrate readiness for places like Yale.

A small one, but yes. Hallelujah!

Dartmouth was first.

Hopefully.

They really can't, which is the point.

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Not in the least.

Progressive policies, enacted for any reason, always end up hurting the people they're intended to help.

Only took four years of 'two weeks to flatten the curve', too.

May DEI go away. Forever.

And this, for some reason, bothers the Left, it seems.

We wouldn't be entirely surprised.

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On one hand, they're private institutions (some of them, anyway). On the other, they do get federal dollars, just like other schools. You'd think there'd be some baseline standard across colleges and universities.

All of this.

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