There’s been a surge in colleges and universities becoming test-optional. Did Fairfield being test-optional attract you to applying?
Kaadiana Barnes ‘17: “Yes, because my SATs were low so obviously, I did not send my scores. Therefore, I felt like Fairfield saw me more as a person just because I didn’t send my scores because to be honest, if you send scores, then you’re more likely to get judged by a number and it’s not fair to be judged based on your number. You should be judged based on how you are as a person or what kind of activities you do, what leadership positions you do. So I think it impacted me a lot having a test-optional school.”
Alexander Gaito ‘18: “Well, I think that ultimately it sort of did because I was not the best standardized test taker in high school. I had a good GPA and I was good in my classes and I worked very hard, but I didn’t have the best scores in SATs or ACTs, and the practice exams that went along with those either. So when it came down to it, when I saw that Fairfield was test-optional, it made applying a little bit easier on my mind because I knew that they wouldn’t be judging me just off the fact that ‘Oh, he got a 1400 on the reading and math sections of the SAT’ or something like that. They would be judging me on the whole person.”
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