Princeton and Stanford universities are among the latest prominent schools to drop requirements on the ACT or SAT.
The mandate no longer requires aspiring students to submit an essay score from the ACT or SAT. It can be strongly recommended that students submit an essay score from either test but it is no longer a requirement. This will be in effect for future students applying in 2019.
Stanford is working on coming up with a different method to assess good writing. While Princeton wants applicants to submit a graded English or History writing sample from high school.
The recent change now leaves Brown University as the only Ivy League school to require an SAT or ACT essay score.
Losing the requirement comes on the heels of the University of Chicago entirely dropping the requirement last month (https://www.hispanicoutlook.com/articles/u-chicago-not-require-sat-scores-many-applicants-e)
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