Wake Forest Makes Test Scores Optional for Applicants
Wake Forest University announced today that it will make standardized tests optional for applicants of its 2009 class—making it one of the most selective schools (30th in U.S. News's ranking of national universities) to reject the prominence of test scores in admissions.
The move comes at a time when more institutions nationwide are becoming concerned about the legitimacy of using test performance as an indicator of potential student success. A number of schools have already dropped the test-score requirement, but most of those institutions are small liberal arts colleges, like Smith College, which announced its new admissions policy two weeks ago.
Wake Forest's policy change was prompted by the school's initiative to diversify its student population, and admissions officials say they will now place more emphasis on personal interviews, academics, and extracurricular activities.
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Fire hatch before he takes wake forest down the drrain
Fire Hatch and his enrollment officers for not having the leadership, savy and talent to follow suit with Harvard, Princeton, Emory, Vanderbilt, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford and all the other high ranking Universities who have what it takes to lead a University high amongst rankings and high in minority status.
Wake is lying to everyone
Harvard has 35% minority status, Northwestern has 33% minority status, Duke has 39% minority status, Emory has 33% minority status, Princeton has 32% minority status, Stanforh has 48% minority status and so on. All the top 20 Universities have high diversity ratios. Mr. Hatch really just wants to dumb down the University to make his job easier.
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