Is Harvard test optional for Class of 2024?
 Show For at least one more application cycle, all Ivy League applicants will once again consider if they can demonstrate their aptitude with a standardized test score. Yale and Princeton admissions officers recently announced maintaining test optional admissions policies through Fall 2023, joining the rest of the Ivy League colleges, although with varying timeframes for the extensions.
Furthermore, admissions officers at other highly selective colleges, where admit rates are in the low teens to single digit percentages, have also extended test optional admissions policies for Fall 2023, for one additional year at Stanford and CalTech, as well as four more years at Johns Hopkins. In such a marked shift in college admissions policies, students and their families are also reorienting their preparation for college. With choice, applicants are imbued with greater responsibility in determining how to showcase their qualifications for admissions, which may or may not include an SAT or ACT score. To exercise their choice responsibly, families will also need counsel who, with the latest information and experience, can recommend how each student can prepare for admissions to college. For nearly twenty years, Jill and the Creative Marbles team have assisted thousands of clients—and stand at the ready to advise any family and student, anywhere around the world. Contact Jill for more details. Tagged ACT/SAT, Brown University, Columbia University, Common Application, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Fall 2023 Admissions, Harvard University, High school freshmen, High school junior, High school sophomore, Ivy League, Parents, Princeton University, Private colleges, Test Optional, University of Pennsylvania, Yale Cornell University, the first of the Ivy League institutions to go test-optional at the height of the pandemic, will remain test-optional through at least the 2023-2024 admissions cycle. This will impact applicants to the Cornell Class of 2028. So, being as Cornell went test-optional in the early days of the pandemic, for the Class of 2025, that means that two falls from now, all four classes at the university will have applied under a test-optional admissions policy. That’s something! As Katherine Esterl reports for The Cornell Daily Sun in a piece entitled “University will Remain Test-Optional for 2023-24 Applicants,” “In a statement to The Sun, Vice Provost for Enrollment Jonathan Burdick, said the admissions office is working on conducting ‘whole-person reviews’ with far fewer or no SAT/ACT scores. ‘I’d say there’s significant awareness across Cornell of the challenging impacts testing policies can create in terms of assembling a diverse and well-qualified student body,’ Burdick wrote. ‘There’s much more for everyone to learn and consider.'” And while Cornell may have been the first Ivy League institution to go test-optional, other Ivies have extended their test-optional admissions policies even further into the future. As an example, Harvard University will remain test-optional through at least the Class of 2030, a class that will apply during the 2025-2026 admissions cycle (or three cycles from now). Yet no matter how far these schools extend their test-optional admissions policies, loyal readers of Ivy Coach’s college admissions blog know where we stand on the issue: all else being equal, students with great SAT or ACT scores will always enjoy an advantage over students who choose not to submit scores. No matter what that school says to the contrary.
You are permitted to use www.ivycoach.com (including the content of the Blog) for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not copy, download, print, or otherwise distribute the content on our site without the prior written consent of Ivy Coach, Inc. Does Harvard require SAT for 2024?Harvard College will allow students to apply for admission without requiring SAT or ACT scores for the upcoming Harvard College Classes of '27, '28, '29, and '30.
Will SATS be required for class of 2024?The University of California Regents, for example, voted in May 2020 to suspend SAT and ACT testing requirements through 2024 and eliminate them altogether for California students in 2025. This movement has not been without controversy.
What colleges are test optional for Class of 2024?Highly selective universities including The Ivy League, Stanford, Northwestern, and Boston University, all have announced that they will remain test optional through the high school class of 2024.
Is Harvard test optional next year?Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, and Stanford have all recently announced that they will remain test optional through the high school class of 2023, with Cornell going a step further remaining test optional through the high school class of 2024, and Harvard through 2026!
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