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“We’ve been heading in this direction for years now,” said
Posted on: August 9, 2021 at 17:15:37 CT
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Jim Rawlins, UO’s assistant vice president for student services and enrollment management and director of the admissions office.
The UO has been reviewing this and deciding whether to make the change for the past three to four years, he said, and finally made the decision this year after a lot of input from the president and provost and understanding how it could change the application review process.
“There are all kinds of things that help us make good decisions of who to admit to the University of Oregon,” he said. So in a “philosophical sense” standardized test scores made sense to lean away from.
“We know deep down, there are students out there who don’t even apply to the University of Oregon because the whole concept of test scores just freaks them out,” Rawlins said.
UO’s also found many students will start the application process, but get hung up on the test score portion and not finish. Before, Rawlins said he was prohibited from accepting students without those test scores, but now he hopes those groups of students, such as first-generation college students, will have one less barrier.
“Those are the students I’m most excited to have available to actually consider for admissions now,” he said.
Rawlins also said that for UO, the change was not in response to the COVID-19 situation, though it does help as many eleventh-graders who would be taking the SATs and ACTs this year won’t get to. ...
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200326/oregon-colleges-no-longer-requiring-sat-or-act-scores
Edited by JeffB at 17:16:29 on 08/09/21
The UO has been reviewing this and deciding whether to make the change for the past three to four years, he said, and finally made the decision this year after a lot of input from the president and provost and understanding how it could change the application review process.
“There are all kinds of things that help us make good decisions of who to admit to the University of Oregon,” he said. So in a “philosophical sense” standardized test scores made sense to lean away from.
“We know deep down, there are students out there who don’t even apply to the University of Oregon because the whole concept of test scores just freaks them out,” Rawlins said.
UO’s also found many students will start the application process, but get hung up on the test score portion and not finish. Before, Rawlins said he was prohibited from accepting students without those test scores, but now he hopes those groups of students, such as first-generation college students, will have one less barrier.
“Those are the students I’m most excited to have available to actually consider for admissions now,” he said.
Rawlins also said that for UO, the change was not in response to the COVID-19 situation, though it does help as many eleventh-graders who would be taking the SATs and ACTs this year won’t get to. ...
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20200326/oregon-colleges-no-longer-requiring-sat-or-act-scores
Edited by JeffB at 17:16:29 on 08/09/21
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