Some US universities make SAT optional for foreign students

Dubai: A move by some US colleges to drop SAT and ACT affirmation test scores for global understudies is probably not going to end up general, an instruction consultancy in Dubai has said.

SAT (once in the past called Scholastic Assessment Test) and ACT (initially known as American College Testing) are institutionalized US college affirmation tests, which are additionally required from global understudies.

Some US colleges, including New York University, George Washington University and Northeastern University, have gone "test-discretionary" for American and global understudies. That implies understudies never again require SAT or ACT scores in spite of the fact that they can present their scores in the event that they need.

Bryen said one motivation behind why top US colleges will dependably require SAT or ACT scores from global understudies is on the grounds that these tests give "a standard measure" of qualification for candidates originating from non-American instructive foundations.

'Periphery slant'

"We're moving toward test-discretionary, without a doubt, however for a considerable lot of the best [US universities] that understudies from the UAE are taking a gander at [for admissions], despite everything they require worldwide understudies to present a SAT or ACT score … So [for example] the test-discretionary University of Chicago [rated among the main five in the US] still require global understudies to present a [SAT/ACT] test score," she included.

"[The trend] is moving toward that path [of test-optional] for US understudies, however for global understudies we don't see, later on, any of these main 10 or 20 [US universities] going test-discretionary. Also, some portion of [the reason] is that they require a sort of standard measure for understudies that aren't in the US educational programs, to see they are really achieving a level they anticipate that understudies will reach. So [test-optional] is all the more a periphery incline for worldwide understudies."