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Article: UC system proposes dropping SATs
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- February 20, 2001
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Jane Krull
University Wire
02-20-2001
(Michigan Daily) (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of California President Richard Atkinson proposed this week that the UC system end the requirement of SAT I scores as part of its admissions process.
This proposal was made during a speech given Sunday to the American Council on Education, and if all runs as planned, could be in effect as early as Fall 2003, university officials said.
The idea is the first of its kind in a large university system but has already been instituted in smaller colleges such as Bates College and Mount Holyoke College.
University of California spokesman Charles McFadden said Atkinson feels the Scholastic Aptitude Test ...