Bill
HB 918
The bill requires a state-sponsored study on whether CLT scores should be used for UNC admissions and scholarships, including concordance with SAT/ACT and costs.
Status: Passed House (committee substitute and engrossed versions); enacted provisions authorize a study. Filed/introduced April 2025; final procedural steps completed in May 2025. Report deadline (per committee substitute): December 15, 2025. Effective: when law.
Purpose and intent
- To evaluate (and in earlier versions, to require) the inclusion of the Classic Learning Test (CLT / CLT10) alongside the SAT and ACT for undergraduate admissions and for awarding state-funded scholarships at constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina (UNC).
- To assess whether CLT scores can be used interchangeably (via concordance) with SAT/ACT scores and to determine operational and fiscal implications of accepting the CLT and offering CLT10 in schools.
Key provisions (how the bill evolved)
- Initial (first) edition: would have required any UNC entity that accepts or permits one of the identified tests (SAT, ACT, CLT) for admissions or scholarships to accept scores from any other identified test and to accept concordant minimum scores. It also would have required school systems to give 8th–10th graders an opportunity to take the CLT10 one time at no cost (paralleling existing PSAT/PreACT opportunities).
- Committee substitute / final enacted version: removes immediate mandate and instead directs the North Carolina Collaboratory to conduct a comprehensive study on including CLT scores for UNC admissions and scholarship decisions. The Collaboratory must seek input from UNC and the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and address specific study areas (below). Final report due to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by December 15, 2025.
Study tasks (required of the Collaboratory)
- Whether CLT scores help determine undergraduate admission qualifications and scholarship eligibility.
- Whether CLT performance predicts college success.
- Whether CLT scores can be concordant with SAT/ACT scores (i.e., used interchangeably).
- Financial, operational, and administrative costs to UNC institutions of accepting CLT scores in addition to SAT/ACT.
- State-level costs of adding the CLT10 as a no-cost option for eligible 8th–10th graders.
Who is affected
- Applicants to UNC constituent institutions (prospective undergraduates).
- Recipients/administrators of state-funded scholarships administered by UNC entities.
- The University of North Carolina System Office, constituent institutions, and the State Education Assistance Authority.
- Local school administrative units and students in grades 8–10 (if CLT10 is adopted for statewide offering).
- State agencies responsible for administering any future policy changes (operational and budgetary impacts).
Procedural/timeline notes
- The enacted measure is study-focused; it does not immediately change UNC admissions or scholarship rules.
- Collaboratory report due December 15, 2025 — any policy or budgetary changes would likely follow legislative or UNC-system action after that report.
- If subsequent legislation or UNC policy adopts CLT acceptance/offerings, implementation could involve test-concordance work, administrative changes, and state funding decisions for CLT10 administration.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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