Competitive Admissions

Noël Anderson

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Competitive Admissions

 

            Eliminating standardized testing requirements is making college admissions more competitive. Abigail Castillo, an admissions counselor at Washington State University says that eliminating standardized testing requirements gives admissions counselors a harder job selecting students, but it does open more doors for students to apply to different schools. Schools across the nation have paused or eliminated standardized exam requirements in response to the pandemic. The most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that nearly 1,200 colleges that received at least             1,000 applications in 2020 reported an average acceptance rate of 70 percent. For example, Baylor University has a 68 percent acceptance rate. An incoming freshman at Baylor University, Austin Douglas says that she took the S.A.T. around four or five times and never got her scores to be competitive enough to apply to certain schools. Baylor University is one of many schools that paused standardized testing requirements for application.

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