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Cornell Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement for Fall 2026 Application Cycle
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Cornell University reinstates standardized testing requirements for prospective undergraduate students starting from the fall 2026 application cycle.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/act/)
Cornell University reinstates standardized testing requirements for prospective undergraduate students starting from the fall 2026 application cycle.
All Cornell colleges and schools will remain without an SAT/ACT requirement, as Cornell Admissions announced the extension of their test-optional and test-blind policies for the Fall 2025 application cycle.
High school students are uncertain regarding the usefulness of standardized testing in college admissions amid low scores nationwide and data revealing score disparities between different income brackets.
Is the Ivy league handing out too many A’s? Columnists Daniel R. Schwarz & Rebecca Sparacio discuss the nature of grade inflation at Cornell and academia at large.
Cornell’s announcement to temporarily suspend testing requirements for admissions has prompted both positive and negative reactions from current high school juniors and Cornell students.
Cornell will suspend standardized testing requirements for the upcoming admissions cycle, becoming the first school in the Ivy League to do so.
“I take full and sole responsibility for my conduct and I am deeply ashamed of my behavior and my actions,” Caplan said in an emailed statement. The lawyer also expressed that his daughter, a high school junior, had “no knowledge whatsoever” about the scheme that he used to up her ACT score.
An elite education is said to be priceless — at least, that could be the motivation behind the actions of Gordon Caplan ’88, who allegedly wired $75,000 to procure a fabricated, inflated ACT score for his daughter.