Selective science college goes test optional

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI, has announced that they are going test optional for students applying for entrance in the fall of 2008. This is significant because WPI is the first selective college with a science and engineering focus to go test optional.

The plan WPI is using is called the Flex path and allows students who don’t wish to submit standardized tests the option to provide other examples of their academic abilities including a written description of science projects, research papers, and inventions as some of the examples listed.

WPI joins approximately 735 other colleges around the country that have gone test optional according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.