Johns Hopkins University to Return to Standardized Testing Requirement as Part of Holistic Admissions Process

Johns Hopkins University will resume requiring ACT or SAT scores for undergraduate admissions to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering {snip}

Hopkins adopted a temporary test-optional policy in 2020 due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic {snip}

Over the past year, the university conducted a comprehensive review of the relevant academic research on testing and analyzed the university’s three years of test-optional admissions experience and related data. With input from faculty colleagues, the review concluded that test scores, when considered in context as part of a holistic approach to admissions, serve as an important predictive metric to assess the likelihood of a student’s academic success at Johns Hopkins. The review also found that the test-optional environment may have discouraged some applicants to Johns Hopkins from less-advantaged or underrepresented backgrounds from submitting test scores that would have provided an additional positive signal of their academic abilities.

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