{"id":9627,"date":"2021-11-09T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/09\/covid-19-became-catalyst-for-trend-of-colleges-waiving-test-scores-for-admission\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:28","slug":"covid-19-became-catalyst-for-trend-of-colleges-waiving-test-scores-for-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/covid-19-became-catalyst-for-trend-of-colleges-waiving-test-scores-for-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 became catalyst for trend of colleges waiving test scores for admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 spurred the trend of colleges and universities toward waiving the standardized test scores&#8217; requirement for admission, but some local colleges, like Furman University, are already test-optional schools. Entrance exams and the trend away from them was on the agenda at a recent Greenville County Schools board meeting where school officials discussed the tests&#8217; value in a post-pandemic world. The discussion spawned an article in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/education\/2021\/11\/08\/covid-19-increases-trend-upstate-south-carolina-test-optional-colleges\/8567779002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Furman University&#8217;s Brad Pochard, associate vice president for enrollment and dean of admissions and financial aid, spoke to education reporter, Krys Merryman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We felt more confident keeping it test-optional to allow those who test well the opportunity to still submit scores if it showed a strong sense of their academic success, but some students are not great test-takers, so becoming test-optional leveled the playing field for those coming from under-resourced, socio-economic backgrounds and schools, and those who were not able to afford to take the tests,&#8221; Pochard said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 spurred the trend of colleges and universities toward waiving the standardized test scores&#8217; requirement for admission, but some local colleges, like Furman University, are already test-optional schools. Entrance exams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,6,35,1],"tags":[1163,255,1164,1165,673],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-uncategorized","tag-act","tag-covid-19","tag-predictors-of-academic-success","tag-sat","tag-test-optional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}