Make the SAT, ACT Required Again, STEM Professors Urge University of California Leaders

An open letter says many UC Berkeley students aren’t prepared for calculus, while some University of San Diego students can’t even do middle school math.

Students walk at the University of California–San Diego campus on Dec. 5, 2024. Jane Yang/The Epoch Times

More than 1,250 faculty members of the nation’s largest public university system are urging their leaders to reinstate the Scholastic Aptitude Test or the American College Testing exam ahead of the 2027–2028 academic year, saying too many students admitted to colleges and universities in the past five years have not met required math standards.

As of the morning of June 2, the open letter contained signatures from professors in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs across California’s university system, in addition to seven of the nine mathematics chairs and 45 other STEM program chairs, according to the document released on the ucstudentsuccess.org website.