After ditching standardized tests — in part by arguing they advance systemic race inequity — a parade of top universities recently announced they are reinstating the SAT requirement.

Three Ivy League schools — Yale, Brown and Dartmouth — all made the announcement in recent weeks. The University of Texas at Austin joined this month, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had already reinstated it in 2022.

After research and study, university leaders state they have found that a student’s future academic success can be measured most accurately with the presence of standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT entrance exams.

“After a few years of being test-optional, colleges have discovered that GPA alone is inadequate to predict college success,” Jeremy Wayne Tate told The College Fix in an email. “Grading varies wildly between different schools whereas a standardized test allows colleges to compare apples to apples.”

Tate is the founder of the Classic Learning Test, a classically liberal alternative to the SAT and ACT, a relatively new standardized test now accepted by more than 200 institutions.

USA Today opinion columnist Ingrid Jacques told The Fix: “Just because something sounds good or ‘equitable’ doesn’t mean it is.”

Jacques wrote a column last month headlined: “Using the SAT, ACT in college admissions isn’t ‘racist.’ What else has the left got wrong?”

“We’ve been told for years that standardized tests like the ones used traditionally for college entrance exams are racist, inequitable and unfair,” she wrote. “Perhaps not.”

“Standardized tests have always been a solid predictor of student success (when combined with other factors), and they offer a consistent measuring device of student preparation, regardless of where they’re from.”

Dartmouth, when it announced in February its decision, had stated the standardized test actually help with diversity.

“Contrary to what some have perceived, standardized testing allows us to admit a broader and more diverse range of students,” the college stated in a news release. “Contextually strong testing clearly enhances the admission chances of high-achieving applicants from less-resourced backgrounds when such scores are disclosed.”

Brown University also announced in a news release similar sentiments, noting “data suggested unintended adverse outcomes of test-optional policies in the admissions process itself, potentially undermining the goal of increasing access.”

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