Changes to UC admissions requirements aiming to broaden the quantity of applications reviewed by the university will affect the way high school students prepare for applying to the university. The ...

An advisory panel at the University of California recommended last week that the university replace the SAT I admissions test with a "core achievement test," intended to better judge applicants' ...

It’s become all too apparent that high school grades are insufficient in signaling college preparedness.

The University of California is considering getting rid of the SAT and ACT requirement in admissions. But even if that happens, students may still need to take a standardized test. A UC faculty ...

The president of the University of California wants to end the use of the SAT and ACT as admission requirements and replace them with a homegrown test, according to a plan released Monday. Janet ...

No — the reason I got into UC Berkeley is probably the result of how much money my mom and dad make. How can anyone, much less a UC Berkeley admissions officer, take that fact, and that chart, and not ...

At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A third couldn’t ...

Editor’s note: This story was produced for Mosaic Vision, a pilot project of the Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students. Students in the program report and photograph stories ...

In the acronym soup of California public higher education, gone are two three-letter combos that led legions of students to plug their noses annually: The SAT and ACT are (functionally) no more. After ...