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☆ SATs are back. Dartmouth is the first Ivy League to reverse course after pledging to remove standardized test requirement.
  + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewDartmouth is the first Ivy League to reinstate its standardized test requirement, which will go into effect for 2029 applicants. The reintroduction of the standardized test requirement was based on a research study the school's faculty recently conducted with Brown University, according to Dartmouth's president. AdvertisementHistorically, standardized test scores have reflected national inequalities, with caucasian and Asian Americans scoring higher than Black and Latino test-takers. Coffin said that the reinstatement of the test requirement may lead to a smaller number of applicants, The Dartmouth reported. MIT was one of the first colleges to reinstate its standardized test requirement after the results of a study that reviewed applicants over the last 15 years.
Persons: —, Lee Coffin, Bruce Sacerdote, Coffin Organizations: Service, Ivy League, Business, Brown University, Ivy, Dartmouth, Brown, Pew Research, MIT, ACT Locations: Dartmouth
☆ Kids of the 1% are twice as likely to get into 'Ivy Plus' colleges, even when their grades are no better than anyone else's
  + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A new study shows kids of the top 1% are over twice as likely to be admitted to Ivy Plus colleges. That's despite scoring no better than students of other income groups, per an Opportunity Insights study. Ivy Plus refers to the eight Ivy League colleges Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Princeton, and Yale, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago. On Tuesday, the US Department of Education launched a federal civil rights probe against Harvard, alleging favoritism towards legacy students in their admission process, per Reuters. The Ivy Plus colleges did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.
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