UC Denies It Will End Use of SAT
The University of California issued a statement Friday, denying media reports that it has a plan to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for admission to any of its eight undergraduate campuses.
C. Judson King, UC provost and senior vice president, said various ideas on admissions policy at the university are “in the very early stages” of discussion.
Many of these ideas, King said, “including the suggestion of altering the use of the SAT in the admission process, have been raised previously and are the subject of great differences of opinion, both within the university and throughout higher education generally.”
UC officials, he said, will be evaluating this idea, along with others in coming months, making sure that all policies remain in compliance with the legal ban on affirmative action imposed by Proposition 209.
The statement came in response to a widely publicized story in the San Francisco Chronicle, reporting on ideas discussed at a recent conference of UC officials who reviewed admissions policy.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
