I’m not sure about the rest of IL, but my D is a junior and her HS is scheduled to take the ACT in April 2016. So I think this will affect rising sophomores, not current juniors. It will give CB a year to get the kinks out a bit more with the redesigned test. I do think the timing of this is strange, with all the recent snafus by CB. But, as pointed out above, Illinios is in a world of hurt financially (with the savings from this change, only 126.999 billion to go)