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Colleges are ditching the SAT. The high school transcript should be next.

Laurie Gagnon is program director of the CompetencyWorks initiative at the Aurora Institute, a national education nonprofit.

In recent years, understanding has grown that traditional ways of measuring student performance aren’t always the most effective. 

More and more colleges no longer require the SAT as an admission requirement — in fact, more than 1,900 institutions are not requiring the ACT or SAT for fall 2024 admissions, according to a recent count from FairTest. 

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