原因是UC不看SAT。。。。 LOL
“Our methodology was as follows. After disqualifying the Ivies (and we used the Ivy-plus yardstick, which includes Stanford, MIT, Duke and the University of Chicago, as well as the eight classics Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell), we started with 1,743 colleges of at least 4,000 students (understanding that small liberal arts schools have always offered a more boutique experience and are hard to compare with research universities). Using 2022 admissions data, the most recent available, we then screened for schools with high standardized test scores (our New Ivies average a robust 1482 SAT and 33 ACT) and where at least half the applicants supplied the scores, regardless of whether they were required to do so for admission—in other words, places that still rely heavily on objective measures of success.
Why the focus on test scores for our New Ivies list? While many colleges made tests optional during the pandemic, exactly the time when these tests would have been most useful, Opportunity Insights’ research shows standardized tests are both more predictive of success in college than grades and fairer to all applicants than some other admission criteria (such as counselors’ recommendations), which favor wealthier private high school grads. (A steady stream of schools, including Ivies Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale and Brown, have recently announced they're reinstating test requirements. The University of California, meanwhile, still refuses to even look at applicant test scores, which is why none of those schools hits our list.)”