So Jeremy, if I was going to ask you what your SAT scores were, would you remember them?

I certainly would.

Do you want to share?

So, yes, I got an 1800 and unfortunately the mathematics score dragged me down.

Jeremy Bowerwolf reports on college admissions for higher ed dive. And I promise I was not asking

him to tell me his SAT scores just so I could clown him. When you got your SAT score, did you feel some kind of way about it?

Where you're like, ugh?

Oh, absolutely.

Oh, absolutely.

It was something that I felt like was hinging on my future, right?

We put so much pressure on students, and it comes down to this one score.

And, you know, that can sometimes, you know, discount their entire academic record.

I was asking Jeremy about his SAT scores because I feel like we're at this moment where the meaning of the SAT is changing.

All that anxiety people used to feel about these tests, anxiety Jeremy felt,

anxiety I felt. It seems to be melting away, just a bit.

New Ad6, Columbia University is dropping standardized test requirements for undergraduate

admissions. This is partially because fewer and fewer colleges are requiring these tests.

These are a couple of standardized tests that have been a right of passage and a source of

anxiety for students for decades.

And now this whole test optional trend is catching on big time.

Earlier this month, after putting standardized testing on hold for the pandemic,

Columbia University became the first Ivy League school to go test optional forever.

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