Just listened to WH report on Standardized Tests not being required for the incoming class for the following year, what do you think? SAT/ACT cancelled. Effects would be crazy, maybe for weight for PS, LORs GPAs… All that work in preparation and it may not matter.
Citation??
It was on Breitbart News! https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/20/watch-live-president-trumps-coronavirus-task-force-speaks-to-the-press/
Talked about it early in the presser today!
Didn’t look at the breitbart link, but other sites are saying he told the states they don’t have to administer the federally required state standardized tests.
Talked about it early in the presser today!
Ok, so they won’t require for this coming admissions cylcle? or allow extension to submit the scores?
Colleges that aren’t already test optional haven’t announced what they are going to do yet.
Again, it looks like to me that Trump is waiving the federally mandated state standardized test requirements. So for example, my state, Illinois, doesn’t have to administer the April SAT, nor any of the other federally mandated standardized tests they were going to administer across all grades.
Ok, so with school closures with undetermined extensions, GPAs, mid year reports, final grades are all up in the air. Do you think acceptances will stand without these?
This is for state obligations to the DOE. And the downside would be that some students won’t get their school day SAT/ACT during this school year - which probably wasn’t going to happen anyway due to schools being closed. I don’t think this announcement has anything to do with college admissions whatsoever, except to the extent that the lack of spring school day testing pushes more colleges toward test optional. It wouldn’t be surprising if those high schools picked up a fall school day test date - there are some in Oct, if I recall.
I wonder if this affects the IB exams too?
I am wondering about those conditional offers that depend on those grades being forthcoming for final acceptances from schools. Also I wonder if this includes AP scores?
@going4three You’ve got it wrong. The declaration only pertains to DOE-mandated exams (EOC, EOG, etc.). This has nothing to do with SAT/ACT/AP/IB.
Ok, to me, when I heard that announcement, I didn’t catch that it wasn’t SAT/AP/IB, my mistake. However, with school closures, test dates postponed, I do wonder if we are not headed in such a direction? College Board has postponed many dates/sites for testing. Also, if high school kids are not in class for a couple of months; GPAs, will be affected: what effect does this have on their admissions cycle?
@going4three where did you see that College Board has postponed testing? Last I read they were considering online for the APs in May.
@ASKMother College Board has cancelled/postponed some SATs. APs are still scheduled, with major modifications.
They haven’t cancelled June’s yet, but it does screw up timing if you get a bad score. Hadn’t heard about the online option for APs, with kids missing critical instruction time, it may effect expected grade outcomes. IB testing dates are in May and I just read that they haven’t been postponed at this time.
Collegeboard is moving almost all of their tests. APs will be at home tests with two possible test dates, and SATs are cancelled through May.
I believe IB tests have been cancelled and they’re moving forward with their predicted grades, @going4three.