"MIT’s Sloan School of Management is telling applicants to its highly prestigious MBA program that they will not have to submit either a GMAT or GRE score to gain an admission from the school. It is the first M7 business school, the name given to the so-called Magnificent Seven highly selective MBA programs, to go test-optional since Harvard Business School took the leap in 1985 and held onto that policy for 11 years.
Sloan joins an ever-increasing number of prominent MBA programs in making standardized tests an optional part of the application process. The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business announced the change in June and a host of other schools have followed including Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business the Wisconsin School of Business, Rutgers Business School, and Northeastern University. And when the outbreak of COVID-19 in the spring shut down test centers, a number of schools, including Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and The University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business, began offering test waivers for applicants directly affected by the pandemic." …