{"id":54997,"date":"2022-12-02T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54997"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:23:43","slug":"in-college-admissions-test-optional-is-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54997","title":{"rendered":"In college admissions, \u2018test-optional\u2019 is the new normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than half of the students who applied early to college this fall submitted standardized test scores, according to an analysis by the nonprofit that publishes the Common Application.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The data point could mark a watershed moment in admissions, college advisers say, when a pandemic pause in SAT and ACT testing requirements evolved into something more permanent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just three years ago, 78 percent of applicants included test scores in their early Common App submissions, a round of admissions that ends Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The share of applicants reporting SAT or ACT scores plunged in 2020, as COVID-19 shuttered testing sites and drove hundreds of colleges to adopt \u201ctest-optional\u201d admissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than half of the students&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54998,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54997\/revisions\/54998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}