College Admissions Counseling Blog

Another selective college has decided to go test optional in its admissions. Rollins College of Winter Park, Fl, will be test optional for students beginning with the class entering fall 2008. Rollins, with approximately 1,700 students, is a liberal arts college with a very strong business program and some limited graduate programs.

Like a number of other colleges that have gone test optional, Rollins will require those students that are not submitting test scores to submit some other evidence of their abilities. According to their web site the supplemental material would include the following: "a graded paper from a core academic course in the senior year (e.g., essays or research papers, lab reports, or work in mathematics or related fields) and a portfolio reflecting the candidate’s strengths, talents, or interests."

Rollins joins over 735 other colleges that have gone test optional in admissions. Although many of those colleges are non selective, more and more selective colleges have also begun to change their approach to admissions.