EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – The University of California system is reevaluating the weight of standardized testing for prospective students in the admissions process.

Pam Davis is the head of the life-planning department at The Vistamar School in El Segundo. She is all too familiar with the stress students feel from standardized testing.  

"You know if I could be God and redesign the universe, no schools would require standardized tests. They're pedagogically ridiculous and a waste of students' time," says Davis.

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For high school senior Calvin Keller, who considers himself analytically inclined, he understands the frustrations that standardized tests bring. However, he hopes there is still a way to showcase his strengths in the admissions process.

"I think it's a good thing that they're making it more optional. For me, I still feel like if they were to completely get rid of it, they should have some way to test math or some quantitative reasoning," said Davis.

Davis anticipates that if UC schools were to drop the standardized test requirement from admissions, other schools across the country could soon follow their lead.