The list of colleges requiring the shot, which is maintained by the No College Mandates organization, includes mostly private colleges, with a few prominent exceptions such as Johns Hopkins University.

The pause in testing gave colleges a chance to study the issue more closely. They found that SAT scores were extremely effective at predicting whether students would succeed in college. The University of California convened a panel several years ago to study the issue at length and it reached the same conclusion. The standardized tests were […]

Amid a higher education environment that's becoming increasingly political, so are the students, who are increasingly weighing state legislation into their college decision making process, according to Gallup and Lumina Foundation.