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Wake Forest Presents the Most Serious Threat So Far to the Future of the SAT
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
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July 1, 2008
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According to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, more than 750 colleges and universities nationwide no longer require applicants to submit scores on either the SAT or ACT college admission test. Over the past decade the number of colleges that have decided to forgo the SAT requirement has tripled.
The large increase in the number of educational institutions that no longer require applicants to submit test scores derived, at least to some degree, from the perception that these tests are unfair to blacks and other minorities and do not offer an effective tool to determine if these minority students will succeed in college.
Many of the prestigious schools ...
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