For students who wish to submit testing as part of next year's application, no preference is given between the SAT or ACT. Each application will be evaluated by what's in the file rather than what is missing from it.
Our requirements, our priorities, and our focus must continue to adjust to the reality we face.Īs we stated last summer, the choice to include a test score or not is each student's choice to make and that decision will be honored at Dartmouth without prejudice. While standardized testing offers a useful statistical context in our holistic evaluation of each student's academic record-as well as in our assessment of each student's preparation for the curriculum we offer-it is untenable to restore the testing requirement while many high schools remain in a remote learning mode and while access to testing sites poses a health risk for students. The initial pause in Dartmouth's testing requirement acknowledged the lack of universal access to SAT and ACT test administrations around the world as the pandemic escalated last summer.
Dartmouth College Extends Test Optional Policy for the Class of 2026Īs the high school class of 2022 begins its college search amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth College is continuing its optional testing policy through the 2021-22 admissions cycle. College Board and ACT have advised "flexibility" in standardized testing requirements during the pandemic, and Dartmouth's extended test optional policy follows that advice.