Have many four year colleges and universities dropped the SAT as an admissions requirement in the last few years?
Not-for-profit four-year colleges and universities rarely drop standardized admissions tests from their requirements. Instead, over the years, a small number have made admissions tests “optional.” These are usually very small colleges, which do not have a very large applicant pool. Some of these schools have quietly returned to requiring the test. Still, almost all of the schools that have introduced an optional policy for admissions tests show average admissions test scores in popular college handbooks and magazines such as US News because colleges understand that SAT scores are one of the ways students evaluate their “fit” with a particular school. Often, they ask for the scores after the students have been admitted. Institutions that are specialized and/or for-profit, such as art academies, culinary schools, Bible and Talmudic colleges, some vocational institutions as well as all virtual and distance education schools are now frequently included on lists of schools that do not requi
