Overview
- Higher Education Commissioner Wynn Rosser told university leaders in a July 23 letter that Texas public universities may immediately use CLT scores when evaluating first-time freshmen who do not qualify for automatic admission, international applicants, and returning students.
- The Texas A&M Public Policy Research Institute found the CLT, SAT and ACT met basic standards of rigor and reliability but said the three tests were not equally ready or equally defensible and that the CLT needs more supporting data to be treated as fully comparable.
- A formal amendment to the statewide uniform admissions policy will be considered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board no later than January 2027, leaving long-term uniform acceptance unresolved until the board acts.
- For applicants the change creates a new testing choice that some students and classical-education advocates say feels more engaging, while colleges will have to decide how to weigh CLT scores against the much larger outcome and participation data behind the SAT and ACT.
- The CLT was founded in 2015 as a classical-education alternative and has won recognition from several state systems and institutions and recently from the U.S. Service Academies, a spread that both expands applicant options and raises questions about test validation and political influence.