Good news for Indian students planning to pursue abroad studies in USA. Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university in USA, has announced that for their undergraduate admissions they will be re-adopting the standardized testing requirement for the Class of 2029.
Even though there is an estimate of 25,000 Indian students taking the SAT annually, Dartmouth College had temporarily suspended its standardized testing requirement in June 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, alongside several other colleges and universities in United States.
In a statement Dartmouth College said “At the time, we imagined the resulting ‘test-optional’ policy as a short-term practice rather than an informed commentary on the role of testing in our holistic evaluation process.”
“Nearly four years later, having studied the role of testing in our admissions process as well as its value as a predictor of student success at Dartmouth, we are removing the extended pause and reactivating the standardized testing requirement for undergraduate admission, effective with the Class of 2029,” the statement added.
This decision comes after a research study commissioned by Dartmouth President Sian Beilock and conducted by Dartmouth economists, which confirmed the value of standardized testing in Dartmouth's admissions process.
Beginning with the Class of 2029, Dartmouth College will be reintroducing the requirement for applicants from US high schools to submit either SAT or ACT scores, with no preference given to either test.
For applicants applying from schools outside USA, they will be able to submit SAT, ACT, or three Advanced Placement (AP) examinations results, or predicted/final exam results from the International Baccalaureate (IB), British A-Levels, or an equivalent standardized national exam.
Dartmouth's English language proficiency exam policy remains the same. Students for whom English is not their first language or if English hasn't been the primary language of instruction for at least two years must submit an English proficiency score from TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo, or the Cambridge English Exam.
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