The Washington Post reports:
During the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of colleges and universities suspended or dropped SAT or ACT test scores as a requirement for admissions. Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) made news by reinstating it — which, as my colleague Nick Anderson wrote here, runs counter to the path taken by other leading institutions of higher education.
There's more:
As MIT’s own announcement statement made clear, its policy is not designed to be generalized, even to other highly selective schools. Rather, the purported utility of SAT math scores at MIT is specific to the unique curriculum of that institution — the introductory physics course that all first-year students must take assumes that everyone has completed introductory calculus.
At Harvard : many students have never taken calculus . It appears Rick Singer knew there was no easy track at MIT.
