PROOF POINTS: Test-optional policies didn’t do much to diversify college student populations
The Hechinger Report
MAY 10, 2021
Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. A study found that the policy boosted diversity on campuses by 1 percentage point, on average. In 1970, Bowdoin College was the first college in the country to go test optional.
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