The testing reversal has a date attached
Four universities have gone back to requiring the SAT or ACT, landing on three different entry years three years apart. The only question a family can act on is which of their children it applies to.
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Writing on how admissions actually evaluates students, and what is changing in the formats families are preparing for.
What replaced the AI detectors
A run of universities stopped using AI writing detection between 2023 and 2026. The formats replacing it ask something different of a seventeen year old, and reward a different kind of student.
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