The Return of Standardized Testing from Marketplace.

I'm Sabrie Beneshore, and for David Brancaccio.

Harvard has become the latest Ivy League school to reinstate its standardized testing requirement starting

with next year's class. Many schools dropped the requirement early in the

pandemic when it was hard to get to a testing site. This was also seen often as a way to diversify incoming classes.

Harvard says standardized tests though actually help it diversify.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Ganser has more.

Harvard had said it wouldn't restart the testing requirement until the class of 2031, but now it's

following the lead of other Ivy League schools like Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown, which have all decided

to reinstate requirements that applicants

submit SAT or ACT test scores.

There are exceptions.

Harvard says if students can't access those tests, they can submit scores from AP or international baccalaureate exams,

Harvard says the tests are a useful predictor of success in college and can help in, quote,

identifying talent from across the socioeconomic range

it cites research from several Harvard professors that found that standardized

tests help identify students at schools with fewer resources.

But in a statement on Instagram, the Generational African American Students Association said

the resumption of Harvard's testing requirement, quote, strikes at the very heart of the progress

made toward achieving true equal opportunity.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

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