Youth

Axios -  Yale is the latest top university to consider reversing its pandemic-era move to make standardized testing optional. The correlation between SAT and ACT results and future student success is surrounded by conflicting research and points of view among school administrators and education advocates. Yale would join Dartmouth — which reinstated its SAT/ACT requirement earlier this month — and MIT. Dartmouth cited a research study that shows "standardized testing — when assessed using the local norms at a student's high school" is valuable for undergraduate applications. Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions said last year that "the SAT or the ACT is the single best predictor of a student's academic performance" at the school, Bloomberg notes. MORE