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Making SAT scores optional in selective college admissions: a case study
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Economics of Education Review Volume 24, Number 4 ISSN 0272-7757 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

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Despite heightened scrutiny of the use of standardized tests in college admissions, there has been little public empirical analysis of the effects of an optional SAT score submission policy on college admissions. This paper examines the results of the decision by Mount Holyoke College to make SAT scores optional in the admissions process. We find that students who “under-performed” on the SAT relative to their high school GPA were more likely to withhold their scores; the admissions office rated applicants who withheld their scores more highly than they otherwise would have been rated; and, matriculants who withheld their scores had a lower average GPA than those who submitted their standardized test results.

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Robinson, M. & Monks, J. Making SAT scores optional in selective college admissions: a case study. Economics of Education Review, 24(4), 393-405. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .

This record was imported from Economics of Education Review on March 1, 2019. Economics of Education Review is a publication of Elsevier.

Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2004.06.006

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