Following MIT’s decision, the question on everyone’s mind is whether or not other schools will follow suit. Those who are in favor of standardized testing, however, think the decision is the right one. Those who have always been against standardized testing say the decision to reinstate the tests is appalling. Now MIT is on the chopping block for reinstating it. The test providers then tried to transfer the test to an online format, but that didn’t work too well, so most universities just decided to make testing optional. Since then, I researched the subject and discovered that a lot of institutions were eliminating the SAT requirement due to the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic made it all but impossible to take the SAT and ACT in person. When I heard that Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was reinstating standardized test scores I had only one thought: I had no idea that MIT had ever taken them away in the first place.
