UC should keep SAT and ACT as admission requirements, faculty report says

UC faculty leaders say the controversial SAT and ACT should remain admission requirements, citing UC data showing a boost to disadvantaged students.

The preliminary recommendation by the Academic Senate’s executive committee comes amid enormous legal and political pressure to, which opponents say fail to adequately predict college success and unfairly discriminate on the basis of race, income and parent education levels.

The faculty review committee “did not find evidence that UC’s use of test scores played a major role in worsening the effects of disparities already present among applicants and did find evidence that UC’s admissions process helped to make up for the potential adverse effect of score differences between groups.

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