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That created an all-new testing system for schools that were used to the previous paper format.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just kind of feels like [getting an SAT seat] is harder than getting Taylor Swift tickets,” said Sophie Linnet, an SAT tutor for students around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, thousands of California students are sitting for these exams to try and stand out in the college admissions process. Recently, some elite universities, like Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale and MIT, have once again begun requiring SAT and ACT scores for students seeking admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the event that the school I want to go to requires SAT scores, I think it would be a good thing to have,” said Jacob Neidleman, a junior at Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He signed up to take the SAT at Lowell in May and June, but he almost didn’t get those seats, which were only recently added, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240422-SAT-TEST-CENTERS-J-NEIDLEMAN-KSM-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Neidleman, 17, a junior at San Francisco’s Lowell High School, decided to take the SAT in case the college requires it of his choice. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was very difficult to get a seat at Lowell. Back in January, I was unable to find a test center within 100 miles of where I lived. We had planned to travel all the way to Roseville, and that was not an ideal situation for us at all,” said Neidleman, who said his family was prepared to incur costs like an overnight hotel stay and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Cruz Urquilla took the ACT for the first time last December, she had to convince her dad to take a day off from work to drive her to a testing center three hours away at a private boarding school in Monterey and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That commute really added to the stress of studying. And I really wanted a good score because of all of the sacrifices my dad was taking and all of the time it took,” she said. “You don’t want it to go to waste.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t get the score she hoped for, and she said that could have at least partly been due to the challenges of getting up and commuting so early. 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Students can take the exam on Saturday test dates or during SAT School Days, where participating high schools offer the test to upperclassmen free of charge during the school day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephany Perez, a high school junior from Houston, says the transition to online is “not that significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"mindshift_63109,news_11964081\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“We’re so used to being on our laptops, like it’s something we do on the regular, in every class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez has been prepping for the online version in school, using test prep material from CollegeSpring, \u003ca href=\"https://collegespring.org/about-us/\">a nonprofit that partners\u003c/a> with high school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s still nervous and anxious about the test because she feels a lot of pressure to do well. “It’s a very important test,” she says. “It dictates what’s going to happen for your college life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s taking the test on Tuesday morning at her high school using school laptops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the first time the College Board has administered a digital exam. 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"content": "\u003cp>The University of California’s historic move to abandon standardized exams may not be the last of changes coming to the admissions process for the public university system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the expectation of college access advocates and admissions experts who say ditching the SAT and ACT should be only the first step in making admissions more equitable across UC, which has nine undergraduate campuses. UC has stopped using those exams at all in admissions and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/university-of-california-sticks-with-test-free-admissions-wont-replace-sat-and-act-with-new-standardized-test/663870\">made clear last month that it has no intention of replacing them with a different standardized test\u003c/a>. UC made those decisions in response to criticism that the tests are biased against students from lower-income families, disabled students and Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope we didn’t give so much weight to the impact of removing the tests, such that everybody’s expecting the demographics of who’s coming will now look dramatically different,” said Michal Kurlaender, a professor of education policy at UC Davis whose research includes college preparation and access. “There are definitely huge equity concerns with the SAT. But I am also worried that in removing it, there’s going to be this assumption that now our system is equitable and outcomes will look better. That isn’t going to happen naturally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other ways the UC can make admissions more equitable include working more closely with K-12 schools to better understand their applicants and possibly even guaranteeing admission to more students who meet certain criteria, Kurlaender and other admissions experts say. UC campus officials also say they could use more funding to expand student capacity and hire more staff to help with reviewing the growing number of applications that have been submitted since the tests were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admissions decisions are made by UC’s campuses, but system leaders also have acknowledged the need to make UC more accessible. Board of Regents Chair Cecilia Estolano said at last month’s regents meeting that when UC reviews student applications, they are dealing with “generations of educational inequity and baked-in discrimination,” adding that the university system must “continuously evaluate the effectiveness” of how admissions decisions are made.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michal Kurlaender, professor of education policy at UC Davis\"]‘I hope we didn’t give so much weight to the impact of removing the tests, such that everybody’s expecting the demographics of who’s coming will now look dramatically different.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state’s other public university system, California State University, the use of the SAT and ACT in admissions is currently suspended for fall 2022 decisions. That system plans to decide soon whether to use the test scores for decisions in fall 2023 and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Investing in K-12\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eliminating the SAT and ACT puts even more emphasis on a student’s high school grades. To be eligible for UC admission, students must take \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/glossary/a-g-courses\">a set of classes known as A-G courses\u003c/a>, which include math, science, history, English, art, foreign language and electives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking advanced versions of those classes, such as honors or Advanced Placement courses, can give students a leg up when applying. But the students who would be at a disadvantage with a testing requirement also often have unequal chances to take those classes. Black and Latino students and students from lower-income families are less likely to have access to and enroll in advanced courses in high school than their white and Asian peers and those from higher-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurlaender said there needs to be an investment in K-12 schools to ensure that there is equity across the state in the types of courses available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than just making sure that the A-G courses are available,” Kurlaender said. “It’s the richness of those courses, the weighted courses, the kind of courses it takes to be competitive at UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Penman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at UC Davis, started in his role in August and is now entering his first admissions cycle. He said his office has made it a top priority to meet with high school counselors across the state and understand the specific circumstances at different schools.[aside postID=\"news_11897034,news_11898137,news_11897105\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, this year, some schools have had substitute teachers for two consecutive semesters in certain classes, Penman said. That’s something he said is worth considering in admissions because it “can make a big difference in a student’s learning experience,” as students \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/sharp-divide-california-teacher-shortages-report\">generally have better educational outcomes when they have stable and qualified teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be especially difficult for admission officials to fully understand the local context of schools that are located far away from their given campus. At UC Irvine in Orange County, admissions staff often have little information about schools in areas like the Central Valley and the northernmost parts of the state near the Oregon border, said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaman said he “would love to have more resources” so his staff can visit those schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a responsibility to the entire state. We have a responsibility to the students in Eureka and the students in Redding and the students in Chico,” Leaman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reading applications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This year, UC \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/why-the-university-of-california-is-seeing-a-massive-surge-in-freshman-applications/648309\">saw a major spike in the number of applications it received for freshman admission\u003c/a>. Across the nine campuses, about 32,000 more students applied for freshman admission in fall 2021 compared to fall 2020, an 18% jump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big increase has overwhelmed some campuses because they haven’t been able to hire more application readers to review and score applications. That can be a detriment to students because it means, on average, their applications are getting less attention than they did when the campuses received fewer applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in applications requires a lot more time. Our staff, they are stretched so thin,” said Michelle Whittingham, the associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at UC Santa Cruz. That campus received 61,708 applications for freshman admission in fall 2021, up from 55,003 the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whittingham said the campus typically employs about 50 readers. Increasing that by anywhere from 25% to 50% would be a big help, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses across UC could also be more efficient with how they review applications, said Jesse Rothstein, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley and an expert in college admissions. For example, Rothstein said he’s suggested that Berkeley admissions staff give more thorough reviews to applicants who have a realistic chance of being admitted and spend less time with applications that aren’t competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-freshman/how-applications-are-reviewed.html\">considers 13 factors when reviewing applications\u003c/a>, ranging from grade point average to extracurriculars to any special circumstances a student faces — such as a disability, low family income or a student being the first in their family to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to read a lot of applications quickly,” Rothstein said. “They’re somewhat underfunded and under pressure. And that means that they don’t give each application the time it deserves. And I think there’s a lot that the universities can do in the details to make sure that applications do get the care they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Guaranteeing admission\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In-state students who graduate in the top 9% of their high school class are offered guaranteed admission to UC. But those students aren’t guaranteed that they will be admitted to the campus of their choice, just that they’ll be accepted to at least one of the campuses, even if it’s one they didn’t apply to.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Audrey Dow, senior vice president of The Campaign for College Opportunity\"]‘I think if we guaranteed students admission to their local UC, provided they meet the admission criteria, we would see a very different demographic makeup.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC could improve the current guarantee program by creating a local guarantee, where students would be promised admission to the campus closest to their high school if they meet certain criteria, said Audrey Dow, senior vice president of the Campaign for College Opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino students attend the state’s CSU campuses and community colleges at higher rates than they do UC campuses, and those who do attend UC have a higher chance of graduating, Dow noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow said a local guarantee could go a long way in making Black and Latino students better represented at UC’s most competitive campuses. Latino students, for example, make up 25% of the undergraduate student population at UCLA but 65% of the K-12 population in Los Angeles County public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if we guaranteed students admission to their local UC, provided they meet the admission criteria, we would see a very different demographic makeup. And one that is much more closely aligned with our California communities,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, however, has lukewarm support at best from UC admissions officials. Leaman, the UC Irvine undergraduate admissions executive director, noted that the system already has a capacity issue. Most campuses receive more qualified applicants than can be admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a finite number of spots. Any time you make a guarantee to one population, you’re reducing the opportunities for another population,” Leaman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaman pointed out that Irvine does \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/files/tag-matrix.pdf\">guarantee admission to community college transfers meeting specific criteria\u003c/a>. Irvine is one of six campuses with a transfer guarantee, along with Davis, Merced, Riverside, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11898632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A broken yellow pencil on top of a standardized test.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS14608_iStock_000037513244_Large-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standardized test with a broken yellow pencil, on March 24, 2015. \u003ccite>(Michael Quirk/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Increasing capacity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One straightforward way to give more students a real shot at being admitted to UC is to increase the number of spots at each campus. Each year, UC turns away tens of thousands of applicants, including many who are eligible. This year, the system made freshman admission offers to more than 132,000 students but rejected 35% of applicants, or about 71,000 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough seats for all eligible students, and it doesn’t match the demand for a higher education. Families and students want to make more than a living wage. And they know that college is their way to get there,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But campuses can’t add more seats without also having additional funding to support those increases. “We need to make sure that we have the infrastructure in place to be able to accept additional students,” said Debi Kammerer, interim director of admissions at UC San Diego. That includes having enough faculty, classroom space and housing to accommodate those students. 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Eleni Kounalakis, the state’s lieutenant governor, serves on UC’s Board of Regents as a voting member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/with-standardized-testing-out-whats-next-for-university-of-california-admissions/664408\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state’s other public university system, California State University, the use of the SAT and ACT in admissions is currently suspended for fall 2022 decisions. That system plans to decide soon whether to use the test scores for decisions in fall 2023 and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Investing in K-12\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Eliminating the SAT and ACT puts even more emphasis on a student’s high school grades. To be eligible for UC admission, students must take \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/glossary/a-g-courses\">a set of classes known as A-G courses\u003c/a>, which include math, science, history, English, art, foreign language and electives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking advanced versions of those classes, such as honors or Advanced Placement courses, can give students a leg up when applying. But the students who would be at a disadvantage with a testing requirement also often have unequal chances to take those classes. Black and Latino students and students from lower-income families are less likely to have access to and enroll in advanced courses in high school than their white and Asian peers and those from higher-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kurlaender said there needs to be an investment in K-12 schools to ensure that there is equity across the state in the types of courses available to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more than just making sure that the A-G courses are available,” Kurlaender said. “It’s the richness of those courses, the weighted courses, the kind of courses it takes to be competitive at UC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Penman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at UC Davis, started in his role in August and is now entering his first admissions cycle. He said his office has made it a top priority to meet with high school counselors across the state and understand the specific circumstances at different schools.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, this year, some schools have had substitute teachers for two consecutive semesters in certain classes, Penman said. That’s something he said is worth considering in admissions because it “can make a big difference in a student’s learning experience,” as students \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/sharp-divide-california-teacher-shortages-report\">generally have better educational outcomes when they have stable and qualified teachers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be especially difficult for admission officials to fully understand the local context of schools that are located far away from their given campus. At UC Irvine in Orange County, admissions staff often have little information about schools in areas like the Central Valley and the northernmost parts of the state near the Oregon border, said Dale Leaman, executive director of undergraduate admissions at the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaman said he “would love to have more resources” so his staff can visit those schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have a responsibility to the entire state. We have a responsibility to the students in Eureka and the students in Redding and the students in Chico,” Leaman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reading applications\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>This year, UC \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/why-the-university-of-california-is-seeing-a-massive-surge-in-freshman-applications/648309\">saw a major spike in the number of applications it received for freshman admission\u003c/a>. Across the nine campuses, about 32,000 more students applied for freshman admission in fall 2021 compared to fall 2020, an 18% jump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big increase has overwhelmed some campuses because they haven’t been able to hire more application readers to review and score applications. That can be a detriment to students because it means, on average, their applications are getting less attention than they did when the campuses received fewer applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in applications requires a lot more time. Our staff, they are stretched so thin,” said Michelle Whittingham, the associate vice chancellor of enrollment management at UC Santa Cruz. That campus received 61,708 applications for freshman admission in fall 2021, up from 55,003 the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whittingham said the campus typically employs about 50 readers. Increasing that by anywhere from 25% to 50% would be a big help, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campuses across UC could also be more efficient with how they review applications, said Jesse Rothstein, a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley and an expert in college admissions. For example, Rothstein said he’s suggested that Berkeley admissions staff give more thorough reviews to applicants who have a realistic chance of being admitted and spend less time with applications that aren’t competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC \u003ca href=\"https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/applying-as-a-freshman/how-applications-are-reviewed.html\">considers 13 factors when reviewing applications\u003c/a>, ranging from grade point average to extracurriculars to any special circumstances a student faces — such as a disability, low family income or a student being the first in their family to attend college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to read a lot of applications quickly,” Rothstein said. “They’re somewhat underfunded and under pressure. And that means that they don’t give each application the time it deserves. And I think there’s a lot that the universities can do in the details to make sure that applications do get the care they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Guaranteeing admission\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In-state students who graduate in the top 9% of their high school class are offered guaranteed admission to UC. But those students aren’t guaranteed that they will be admitted to the campus of their choice, just that they’ll be accepted to at least one of the campuses, even if it’s one they didn’t apply to.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC could improve the current guarantee program by creating a local guarantee, where students would be promised admission to the campus closest to their high school if they meet certain criteria, said Audrey Dow, senior vice president of the Campaign for College Opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and Latino students attend the state’s CSU campuses and community colleges at higher rates than they do UC campuses, and those who do attend UC have a higher chance of graduating, Dow noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dow said a local guarantee could go a long way in making Black and Latino students better represented at UC’s most competitive campuses. Latino students, for example, make up 25% of the undergraduate student population at UCLA but 65% of the K-12 population in Los Angeles County public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if we guaranteed students admission to their local UC, provided they meet the admission criteria, we would see a very different demographic makeup. And one that is much more closely aligned with our California communities,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, however, has lukewarm support at best from UC admissions officials. Leaman, the UC Irvine undergraduate admissions executive director, noted that the system already has a capacity issue. Most campuses receive more qualified applicants than can be admitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a finite number of spots. 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Each year, UC turns away tens of thousands of applicants, including many who are eligible. This year, the system made freshman admission offers to more than 132,000 students but rejected 35% of applicants, or about 71,000 of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough seats for all eligible students, and it doesn’t match the demand for a higher education. Families and students want to make more than a living wage. And they know that college is their way to get there,” Dow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But campuses can’t add more seats without also having additional funding to support those increases. “We need to make sure that we have the infrastructure in place to be able to accept additional students,” said Debi Kammerer, interim director of admissions at UC San Diego. That includes having enough faculty, classroom space and housing to accommodate those students. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Lea este artículo en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2021/11/la-uc-abandona-oficialmente-cualquier-prueba-para-las-admisiones-de-pregrado/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">español\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California will not require any kind of admissions test for students trying to gain entry as undergraduates, system leaders reiterated Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the system \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2020/05/uc-sat-act-standardized-test-requirements/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted last year to do away with requiring the SAT and ACT admissions tests\u003c/a>, still up in the air was whether the UC would decide to use any other test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs already strongly suggested that the answer was no. A December 2020 report and more recent September report stated that creating a new test and using an existing assessment 11th graders have to take already aren’t feasible. On Thursday, UC leaders reaffirmed that the system will be test-free for undergraduate admissions going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have an assessment now that we believe we can use effectively,” said UC President Michael Drake at Thursday’s UC Board of Regents meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Regents agreed with the move, said its chair, Cecilia Estolano. “We reached a conclusive decision that there isn’t right now a test or an assessment that we feel comfortable using in our admissions process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will have national implications,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAT and ACT have long been the focus of critics who say they are racially biased and give a leg up to wealthier students whose families can afford pricey test preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having no testing requirement is also seen as one reason why the UC \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/education-race-and-ethnicity-79f7d0e7eb812ce36538b9e112c38956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted its most diverse class for this fall\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-admissions-reach-record-highs-california-freshmen-underrepresented-students-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a July press statement from President Drake’s office\u003c/a>. The number of low-income students who were admitted to a UC campus jumped by 10% since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How we got here\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The creation of a \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan21/b2attach5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new test is out of the question because it would take too long to develop\u003c/a>, a December 2020 academic report to the UC Office of the President said. The Board of Regents’ vote last year to get rid of the SAT included the possibility of having a replacement test by 2024. But another academic report indicated creating a new test would take nine years. In effect, the Board of Regents’ tight deadline ruled out a new test, the December 2020 report said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cecilia Estolano, Chair, UC Board Of Regents\"]'This will have national implications.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC’s focus then shifted to using an existing test called Smarter Balanced. It’s an assessment federal law requires that California public school students take for free in classrooms in grades 3 through 8 and 11. Unlike the SAT, though, the Smarter Balanced isn’t a “high stakes” test that determines a student’s academic fate. It’s chiefly used by state and district officials to measure whether students are making academic progress. Generally, it’s not a test K-12 students stress over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\"This will have national implications\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After months of meetings, a working group of the UC Academic Senate recommended in September that the \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/nov21/b3attach2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC not adopt the test for admissions\u003c/a>. Its report said overhauling the Smarter Balanced assessment as an admissions test would just recreate the same issues that prompted the UC Board of Regents to get rid of the SAT and ACT.[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, using it for admissions would turn the Smarter Balanced assessment into a major source of anxiety for students given its sudden high-stakes nature. Next, making Smarter Balanced an admissions tool would create a new marketplace for test-prep, which the Academic Senate group said would result in wealthier families hiring tutors and purchasing other materials to give their students a leg up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Smarter Balanced “captures the inequities in opportunities to learn across California schools that are pronounced by race and socioeconomic status,” \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/nov21/b3attach2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Academic Senate group’s September report said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Drake last month \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Letter-from-President-Drake-Horwitz-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed with that recommendation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Are admissions tests at the UC gone forever?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Could the UC change its stance and adopt an admissions test again? Maybe, Drake said. If a test comes along and “does what we believe it should do in a way that we believe it’s effective, we certainly could consider adopting such a thing in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one Regent thought keeping the door slightly open for another testing requirement is ill-advised, given how much work is required to overhaul admissions requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have to rewrite our entire admissions system again,” said Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza, a Berkeley student and Regents member, who noted that admissions offices at the UC scrambled to adjust their criteria for letting students in after the Regents removed the SAT requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More work for admissions offices without a test\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, without a test, admitting students becomes more challenging because of the workload it represents for admissions officers, Estolano said. That the UC ditched the SAT has already led to record-level applications to the system. For fall 2021, the first season after the UC dropped its testing requirement, the UC received more than 200,000 applications, compared with 172,000 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Training admissions office staff on the “comprehensive review” process that looks at grades, extra-curriculars, the socio-economic factors in which students grow up and other non-test criteria becomes even more important, Estolano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying more on artificial intelligence may be one way to help with the workload. 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"content": "\u003cp>In August, University of California President Janet Napolitano will step down after seven years at the helm. In a one-on-one interview with The California Report's Lily Jamali, Napolitano talked about the decision to suspend the standardized test requirement in admissions, the ongoing pay dispute with grad students, the future of the UC's Dreamers and how she views her legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED's Lily Jamali: On immigration, the Supreme Court could issue a decision at any moment on whether so-called \"Dreamers\" can stay in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. For people who don't know, you created DACA during your time as Homeland Security Secretary and your UC has led that legal fight. If Dreamers end up losing their status, what does the UC plan to do with Dreamers within the system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Napolitano: We will provide support to our DACA students. We have a legal services clinic for our undocumented students. Some of them may actually be able to change their immigration status if they work with a lawyer who is experienced in immigration law. But there's a big concern here, because along with deferring any deportation, if you're in DACA you get work authorization. Our DACA students primarily come from poor families and they need to work to be able to go to school. We're evaluating what our options are there. They're not terrific options, but philanthropy and private fundraising to help support these students is definitely part of the solution here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And potentially some financial help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And potentially some financial help. We estimate that at the University of California — I think this is a conservative estimate — that we have some 1,700 DACA students. And you know what's ironic about the case in the Supreme Court? There were hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients across the country. And there was a supplemental brief filed pointing out that 29,000 of them are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823165/weight-back-on-my-shoulders-young-daca-doctor-awaits-supreme-court-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actually health care workers\u003c/a>. They're nurses, respiratory therapists, and physicians. To put them under the risk of deportation at this particular point in time just makes no sense whatsoever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If the Supreme Court ends up siding against Dreamers, is there a game plan to fill the positions that they would leave behind within the UC?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not in that way. One of our next steps would obviously be to continue to urge the Trump administration to leave the program in place. Just because the Supreme Court rules that the administration can rescind the program the way it did, doesn't mean it ought to rescind the program. And then Congress will need to get involved should the Supreme Court rule against us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When the pandemic first hit California, the UC was dealing with a strike by graduate students at UC Santa Cruz, and it looked like students at some other campuses in the system were ready to join. The union has filed charges of unfair labor practices and hearings on that start this month. I wonder if you can share your position right now on that dispute. Those students say that they're not making a living wage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The graduate students who were on strike went on an unlawful wildcat strike. We have a union. We have a collective bargaining agreement. We simply seek to enforce the agreement that students themselves voted on and approved. They have filed some complaints against us in connection with the wildcat strike. We have filed a complaint against the union for not enforcing the no-strike provisions in their collective bargaining agreement. One of the chief values we get from a collective bargaining agreement is the assurance of labor peace and that there will not be strikes while there is a contract in place. And we think PERB [California's Public Employment Relations Board], which is the body that hears these kinds of issues, ought to enforce the contract that the union and its members agree to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I've spoken to members of the union who went on strike. One of them was making something like $20,000 a year in Santa Cruz, where the cost of living is pretty expensive. It's expensive in L.A., it's expensive in Berkeley. Do you think that $21,000 or $22,000 is a living wage in a place like Santa Cruz?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I think you ought to look at the total compensation that graduate students get. They get a waiver of tuition, health insurance, a pretty hefty childcare subsidy. So the overall package is very competitive with other grad student compensation packages around the country. We thought it was a fair deal when it was struck. It will be renegotiated, obviously, when the contract is due to expire. I think it has another two years to go and that would be the appropriate time for these kinds of issues to be raised. It's not appropriate, however, for grad students to hold undergraduate grades hostage, which is what was occurring here. You know, they have a contract. Part of that agreement is that they post grades in a timely manner. They get all of the benefits that I've described, plus some. And a wildcat strike really undercuts the core of why we have collective bargaining to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I also want to get your reaction to reports from Vice News that the UC Santa Cruz Police Department coordinated with the state's National Guard to do surveillance on students during those strikes. I just want to have you address concerns that the situation was approached like a military operation in the view of some.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is probably more appropriately addressed to the campus. They will have the real detail on that. But I will tell you that the Santa Cruz campus is very hilly. And I don't think it was so much coordination as UC Santa Cruz Police and National Guard — knowing where each other, where they were — because you couldn't see them just because of the topography of the campus. So I think some of those practicalities came into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So this notion that there was surveillance happening to repress protesters, what's your response to that? Because that's the charge: that it was not about logistics but about suppressing protest.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I don't think the protests were suppressed. They happened. They were very active. Anti-protest surveillance is the perception. I think it's an inaccurate one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Given the moment that we're in, I have to also ask you about the role of police, not just during those strikes, but in general. Is there any discussion about defunding the police departments within the UC?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not defunding, but we want to make sure that our police are well-trained and are using best practices in terms of de-escalation and that complaints — when made — are handled properly. That there's reporting and accountability, and that we have a systemwide use-of-force policy. There's a campaign — 8 Can't Wait. It's eight fundamental actions that reduce the risk of violence by police departments and we're implementing all of those. We had a very extensive policing task force a year ago that came out with a report with a number of recommendations, all of which are being implemented by the campuses as we speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the SAT decision: the UC last month announced it's suspending those testing requirements through 2024. Can you take us inside how that that debate played out within the UC system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure. So in 2018, I asked the academic Senate to review the use of the SAT and ACT as a requirement for admission. There's been a lot of public controversy about the SAT exam: that it is unfairly biased in favor of students from wealthier families, that there was an unhealthy correlation between the SAT and your zip code, that a whole industry had developed for students to prepare for the SAT and that disadvantaged students from lower-income families just plain couldn't afford it. So the faculty did a very extensive report which came to me. I disagreed with the conclusion of the report that we ought to maintain the SAT in part because in our admissions process, we were turning all kinds of gymnastic leaps to mitigate for the biases in the test. And so it seemed to me it was time for the UC to wean its way from the SAT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the next two years, we'll be test-optional, meaning students can elect to submit a test or not. And then, for the following two years, we'll be what's called \"test blind\" — meaning if a student submits a test score, it won't be used in the admissions decision but it can be used for other purposes: some scholarships, for example, or course placement. And then, by 2025, we either will have developed an alternative test or we'll simply have no standardized test requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does UC plan to make yet another admissions test amid criticism that tests are classist, racist and exclusive? What do you think that test will emphasize?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So first of all, we haven't made a decision whether to have an alternative test. We are looking at the feasibility of that right now. We require, as does CSU, that high school students take what's called A-G courses. These are the sequence of courses to prepare you to enter university. An alternative test could be more closely aligned with what we want students to have learned in the A-G classes so that admissions officers can evaluate whether students are prepared to enter the university. So that may be one aspect of a new test should a new test actually be developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>You have been the president of the UC since 2013. How do you want your tenure to be remembered?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to be remembered as being lively. We just did so many things. We had the goal of being carbon-neutral by 2025. In pursuit of that goal, we became fossil-free, and also invested some of our own funds into new, sustainable energy practices. We took on the issue of sexual violence and sexual harassment on college campuses, and totally re-did the framework for how we handle those matters. We grew substantially in enrollment. We added some 46,000 students during my tenure. But not only did we add students, we improved things like graduation rates — so our 4-year graduation rate went from 63% to 70%, and our 6-year graduation rate went to 85%. And for transfer students, the graduation rate is 90%. We added transfer students and formed a transfer guarantee with the community college system so that now, for every two freshmen, we have a transfer student from the community colleges. We worked on issues like free speech on college campuses and started a new National Center on Free Speech and Civic Engagement in our Washington, D.C. facility. We've taken on a lot of big issues, as well as improving the standard metrics like graduation rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you think you'll stay in public service after this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, my plan is to have a sabbatical year. I'll have been president seven years, so I'll have a sabbatical. 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