Harvard Reinstates Standardized Tests for Admission, Beginning in 2025

Officials cited research, published last year by Harvard professors, that found standardized tests to be an ‘important tool to identify promising students.’

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass., on March 23, 2020. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Harvard University will require its applicants to submit standardized test scores for admission, beginning with students who apply to start school in fall 2025, the university has said.

The university announced the reversal of the pandemic-era policy that made the exam score requirements optional in a statement on Thursday. It is the latest school to start mandating tests again for admissions after Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced similar updates.