从几个层面来说。
1. UC 系统的角度：
1）确实觉得SAT/ACT 设计的逻辑背离了自己的办学理念，要放弃了
2）会用四年时间去设计一个自己的考试，想看看是College Board 不行，还是考试这件事情不行
3）如果UC 系统自己也研发不出来合适的考试，那么就可能彻底不要考试了。
2. CB 角度
1） 很遗憾
2）我们还是致力于给弱势群体最好的教育机会的
3) 加州系统的不公平不能全赖我们头上，你们的学校教育才是不公平的源头
3. 未来学生的角度
1） UC 会有新的第三个标化考试吗？那是不是意味着申请美国要考的更多了
2）UC 如果没有出来自己的考试，同时不再参考SAT/ACT, 申请的时候会侧重看什么呢？
3）UC 和 CB 有可能和好吗？
以上的很多问题，当然目前都很难有答案。
但可以来看几个目前的事实，有可能可以作为参考。
第一， 关于不看SAT/ACT 考试这件事情，其实UC 不是第一家，哥大、康奈尔、哈佛 一个个都宣布自己不看SAT 成绩。
但我们来看下官方公布的2019秋季入学学生的SAT 情况
ERW = Evidence based Reading and Writing
middle 50% = 录取的里面按分数从低到高排列后，中间50% 的人群
75th percentile = 录取分数排名在前25% 的人群。
哈佛 1570分以上的人占到了整体录取的25% 。所以学校选择看和不看分数，和申请者有和没有分数，可能是两件事情
当然，哈佛不看SAT 以后，确实会录取一些SAT 不拔尖，但是其他方面很拔尖的人。（点击查看）
只是要证明自己拔尖不见得是件容易的事情，哪怕相比于考一个拔尖的SAT成绩。
教育改革，会牵扯到各种因素，所以后续一定会有各种发展。
但不管怎么，近两年申请的，还是要好好考SAT/ACT.
目前还在初中的，好好提高自己的综合能力一定是不会错的。
不管怎么变，学校一定不会错过一个优秀的你。优秀的你，也一定会遇到一所配得上你的学校
原标题：University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT
原作者：Douglas Belkin
原刊于：Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2020 7:06 pm ET
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The University of California board of regents voted Thursday to stop using the SAT and ACT college admissions exams, reshaping college admissions in one of the largest and most prestigious university systems in the country and dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry.
The unanimous 23-to-0 vote ratified a proposal put forward last month by UC President Janet Napolitano to phase out the exams over the next five years until the sprawling UC system can develop its own test.
The battle against standardized tests has raged for years because minority students score, on average, lower than their white classmates. Advocates argue that the exams are an unfair admission barrier to those students because they often cannot pay for pricey test preparation.
“The test is a proxy for privilege,” said Regent Cecilia Estolano. “It’s time, it has been studied to death.”
More than 1,000 colleges and universities have gone “test optional,” with the pace of schools dropping the exam accelerating in recent years in an attempt to level the admissions playing field.
The University of California received more than 176,000 freshmen applications last year—including around 116,000 from in-state students—and the system’s decision to abandon the exams opens the door for other schools to follow suit, partly to ensure they don’t alienate California applicants.
A spokesman for the College Board, which oversees the SAT, said the organization’s “mission remains the same: to give all students, and especially low-income and first-generation students, opportunities to show their strength. We must also address the disparities in coursework and classrooms that the evidence shows most drive inequity in California.”
Ms. Napolitano’s proposal allows four years for the UC system to develop a new exam. If it fails to create or adopt one, then it likely would cease to use any exam, said Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, known as FairTest, which has fought against standardized testing for 30 years. Mr. Schaeffer said he doesn’t believe a new exam will be implemented.
“It appears very unlikely that they will be able to design an instrument that is more accurate and fairer than relying on applicants’ high school records,” Mr. Schaeffer said. “And, if a new test somehow meets those goals promoters would face massive adoption barriers, including persuading UC and the rest of the admissions world that a third test is truly needed or useful.”
The road to Thursday’s vote has been full of twists and turns. Ms. Napolitano began the review of the use of the SAT in 2018, that prompted a faculty committee began a review of the use of the exam. In February it recommended that the system continue to use the exams, arguing that applicants’ scores on the SAT and ACT still serve as better predictors of first-year performance than high school grades.
However, the task force encouraged the university system to expand the criteria on which it bases admissions decisions, and suggested possibly creating an alternative admissions test.
In December, students and community groups sued the University of California, alleging its requirement that applicants submit ACT or SAT scores discriminates against racial and ethnic minorities and low-income applicants.
Last month, the UC system voted to suspend the use of the tests for one year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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