China Overseas Chinese Network, June 17 (Xinhua Daily) reported that the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Springfield University (UIS) have announced recently that it is impossible to determine the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic on high school students. Whether it is possible to take a standardized test, so the school decides that freshmen applying for admission to the fall class in 2021 will not need to submit ACT or SAT test scores.
The University of Illinois has required applicants to provide ACT or SAT test scores as a reference standard for admission evaluation since the 1970s. Among them, the number of students exceeds 52,000 at the University of Champagne-Italy. It is still evaluating whether the fall class in 2021 will be suspended. The possibility for applicants to submit these two results will be announced as soon as possible this week.
Tom Hardy, a spokesman for the University of Iraq, said that UIC and UIS applicants do not need to submit academic test results only for the 2021 school year. Future admission applications will still require academic test results.
The ACT and the College Board that hosted the SAT were closed during the outbreak, and students were not able to take the exams for free at the school, so the exams held in March, May, and June were canceled. Although it was considered to allow students to take the exam at home during the summer vacation, many students did not have enough computer equipment or a stable network connection to postpone the implementation.
The University of Chicago has long been in the Midwest since 2018, allowing applicants to choose whether to submit academic test scores. Indiana University (Indiana University) plans to start from the 2021 school year, also implement the application requirements that do not compulsorily pay SAT and ACT scores.
In addition, the private Bradley University decided in May to implement the policy of "not mandatory submission of academic test scores". Justin Ball, deputy director of admissions management, said that in addition to reducing the pressure on students to apply during the outbreak , And enable the school to expand the recruitment of students with more meta backgrounds. (Chen Manling)