For nearly five years, many of America's most selective universities paused one of the most recognizable parts of the admissions process: standardized testing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SAT and ACT requirements were temporarily suspended as testing centers closed and colleges sought to maintain equitable access for applicants. What began as an emergency response soon evolved into one of the largest admissions experiments in higher education. Now, that experiment is coming

For years, the Classic Learning Test (CLT) was one of college admissions' best-kept secrets. Popular primarily among homeschool families and classical Christian schools, the exam steadily gained credibility while remaining largely outside the mainstream conversation dominated by the SAT and ACT. That is changing rapidly. Today, the CLT is earning recognition from state governments, public universities, scholarship programs, and even military institutions. For Florida students

When the University of California Board of Regents voted in 2020 to eliminate SAT and ACT scores from admissions, the decision was celebrated as a landmark step toward expanding educational equity. By adopting a test-blind policy, the nation's largest public university system sought to reduce barriers for students from underrepresented and lower-income backgrounds while placing greater emphasis on grades, coursework, and other application materials. Six years later, however,

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1926, approximately 8,000 high school students sat down to take an unfamiliar exam that would eventually become one of the most influential standardized tests in American education. The original SAT featured 315 questions completed in just 97 minutes, testing vocabulary, analogies, arithmetic, and reasoning skills. At the time, few could have predicted that this experimental assessment would shape college admissions for generations. Now, as