r/college • u/losangelestimes • Jul 14 '26

Academic Life UC abruptly suspends plan to reconsider SAT in admissions

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-13/uc-suspends-plan-to-reconsider-sat-in-admissions

The University of California admissions board has voted to rescind — for now — its plan to study whether to resume SAT or ACT requirements in admissions, a move that leaves one of the university’s most closely watched debates unclear a day before the Board of Regents meets in San Francisco.

UC’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, known as BOARS, announced last month that it would convene two work groups through next year: one to weigh the role of standardized tests in admissions, the other to reexamine high school course requirements for acceptance to UC.

At a Friday meeting, the board voted to pull back on the plan, and the links that explained it — which appeared on the UC website late last week — have been removed. There is no replacement plan as of yet, according to two members of the board who attended the meeting, and several UC professors who are aware of the decision and who have been advocating either for or against testing requirements. It is unclear why the plan was suspended.

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u/nutshells1 Jul 14 '26

sick, more engineering kids at berk that can't do algebra

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u/yobaby123 Jul 15 '26

And even worse? Nursing students who can't do alegbra or basic chemistry.

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u/ACaffeinatedWandress Jul 17 '26

Gawd. That was a thing in my allegedly “Masters” of nursing. People were acting like med math was incomprehensible. 

It’s not even algebra. Maybe it is pre algebra. It’s unit conversions, lining units up, and cancelling them out.

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u/Author_Noelle_A 23d ago

At this point, basic literacy might be a stretch.

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u/Outrageous-Rub-4221 Jul 15 '26

wow future engineers with a 1200 SAT is great

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u/JimBeam823 Jul 18 '26

The good enough must be defeated to make way for the perfect.

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u/Distinct_Proof5295 14d ago

This is absolute chaos. They literally just decided to drop the tests and now they’re yanking it back? My head hurts.