{"id":8443,"date":"2019-10-17T03:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/16\/these-sc-colleges-dont-require-sat-act\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:17","slug":"these-sc-colleges-dont-require-sat-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/these-sc-colleges-dont-require-sat-act\/","title":{"rendered":"These SC colleges don&#8217;t require SAT, ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine institutions of higher learning in South Carolina don&#8217;t require SAT or ACT results for admission, including Furman University. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/10\/16\/furman-wofford-do-not-require-sat-act-scores-student-admission\/3973786002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong> reached out to Melissa Cline, associate dean of admissions, and Paul Thomas, professor of Education, for their thoughts on the test-optional approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The strongest indicator of student success is how they&#8217;ve performed in the classroom throughout high school,&#8221; Cline says. Citing a large body of research on the subject, Thomas says, &#8220;standardized tests are far more strongly correlated with out-of-school factors than they are to in-school factors. Standardized tests are a stronger reflection of factors beyond a child&#8217;s control than they are of a child&#8217;s ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine institutions of higher learning in South Carolina don&#8217;t require SAT or ACT results for admission, including Furman University. The Greenville News reached out to Melissa Cline, associate dean of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}