King’s Signs On to Accept New Alternative to SAT & ACT
Prospective students at The King’s College will now have a third option when submitting standardized test scores with their college application packets. Debuting earlier this summer, the Classical Learning Test (CLT) offers an alternative to the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT) that have served as the standard bearers for colleges and universities to gauge and assess the academic readiness of student applicants.
NEW YORK CITY – 9/16/16 – Prospective students at The King’s College will now have a third option when submitting standardized test scores with their college application packets. Debuting earlier this summer, the Classical Learning Test (CLT) offers an alternative to the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test (ACT) that have served as the standard bearers for colleges and universities to gauge and assess the academic readiness of student applicants.
“The King’s College is thrilled to announce the acceptance of the Classic Learning Test for our admissions process,” said Kimberly Thornbury, vice president of strategic planning at King’s. “This new standardized entrance exam reflects the values and ideas that are core to the mission and vision of our college.”
The main goal of the test is to bring back a focus on value and character development within a student. A brochure available on the CLT website points out that “the best college students and employees are not those who can perform some kind of special academic task, but those who can read well, reason well, communicate well, and even see the moral implications of decisions, ideas and discoveries,” something the test creators feel is missing from other standardized tests today.
Jeremy Tate, co-creator of the CLT along with David Wagner, was a test preparation consultant and college counselor. In a recent interview with the Epoch Times, he said that the approach in modern education has been “very utilitarian” and focused primarily on skill sets alone. His goal is to change that with the CLT, going back to education’s historical roots where the character formation of a person was also important.
The CLT includes three sections: verbal reasoning, grammar/writing and quantitative reasoning. An example of the values-based approach Tate says makes the CLT so distinctive can be found in the first section in the practice test found on the CLT website. The test participant is asked a series of questions after reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Inner Ring,” an essay which looks at the universal desire and temptation of fitting in with various groups in society.
Currently, over 20 universities and colleges including The King’s College, are accepting CLT score submissions. The CLT is offered 5 times per year on specific dates. For more information on test dates and test site locations, visit cltexam.com.
For more than 75 years, The King’s College has educated young leaders to integrate their faith, ethics and morality seamlessly into their lives and careers. The only traditional Christian liberal arts college or university located in the heart of New York City, King’s prepares students for principled leadership around the world. Visit tkc.edu for more information or request a personalized visit by calling 888.969.7200.