Test-Optional College Admissions: ACT and SAT Scores, Applications, and Enrollment Changes

The authors have no relevant of funding or financial relationships to report. We thank Drew Bailey, Damon Clark, Andy de Barros, Ted Joyce, Michael Hurwitz, Jessica Howell, Amal Kumar, Di Xu, and seminar participants from UC Irvine, City University of New York, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), and American Educational Review Association (AERA) conferences for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank Brian Kim, Mark Freeman, and the Common Application team for sharing their data; and Jesse Dalton from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research for support with data transfer and storage. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.