
Key Points
- 72 colleges and university systems on our list require SAT or ACT scores in some form for students entering in fall 2027, including six of the eight Ivy League schools, MIT, Stanford and all 12 Florida public universities.
- Columbia, Princeton, Notre Dame and Claremont McKenna stay test-optional for fall 2027 and require scores starting with fall 2028. Vanderbilt follows in fall 2029.
- Test-optional doesn’t mean scores don’t matter: 779,300 Common App first-year applicants reported a score in 2025-26, more than the 748,028 who didn’t.

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