College Admissions Counseling Blog

Goucher College, a selective liberal arts college in Baltimore, announced today that they are joining the ranks of colleges that will no longer require standardized tests for admissions. The other day Merrimack College, a selective Catholic college near Boston announced that they were also eliminating the testing requirement for admissions. This brings the current total of colleges that don't require testing to over 740 according to Fairtest.

Students with good test taking abilities can still submit test scores to most of the colleges that don't require them but for those students that don't do as well on standardized tests, the test optional schools provide some reassurance that you can still find a good college for your needs.