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Judge bars University of California from all use of SAT, ACT scores in admissions

Bob Egelko and Nanette Asimov
Sep. 1, 2020 Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 5:53 p.m.

The University of California, which has already stopped requiring applicants to take the SAT or ACT, must go further and prohibit campuses from allowing prospective students to submit their scores, a judge ruled Tuesday in a victory for students with disabilities.

The UC regents voted in May to drop the Scholastic Aptitude Test and American College Testing exam as admissions requirements, in response to complaints by low-income, minority and disabled students that the standardized tests were unfair to applicants who could not afford preparation classes and tutors, or whose first language was not English. The students sued in December.

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