Test-Optional Policy Publicized

Newsday interviewed Joseph Posillico, Ed.D., vice president for enrollment management and strategic communications, and a New York Tech student for a story about test-optional admissions at Long Island universities and colleges. Posillico shares that the decision to enact a test-optional policy has not had an academic impact on the caliber of students accepted.

“We are still getting the same quality of students. It’s not like anything has dropped off because we’re now not requiring SATs or standardized tests,” says Posillico, who also noted that the university has seen an increase in the diversity of its student body, as well as in first-generation students enrolled, since enacting its test-optional policy.

Undergraduate student Aaron Nandlal, an electrical and computer engineering major who applied test-optional shared, “Personally, I felt like my strengths as a student didn’t reflect well in my SAT score…SAT and ACT scores–or on any standardized test for that matter–really come down to how much prep you put into that exam, specifically, rather than testing all the accomplishments and all the skill sets you build up from freshman year to senior year as a high school student.”