{"id":8939,"date":"2018-11-19T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2018-11-19T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T21:25:51","slug":"augsburg-adopts-test-optional-admissions-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2018\/11\/19\/augsburg-adopts-test-optional-admissions-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg adopts test-optional admissions policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring, the Augsburg faculty approved a pilot test-optional admissions policy, making submission of ACT or SAT test scores optional for fall 2019 first-year and transfer undergraduate student applicants, except in specific circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/firstyear\/inquire-and-apply\/test-optional\/\">test-optional admission policy<\/a> aligns with Augsburg\u2019s mission of intentional diversity and is expected to increase the university\u2019s pool of completed applicants each year,\u201d said <strong>Nate Gorr<\/strong>, assistant vice president for innovation.<\/p>\n<p>For a number of student populations, standardized test scores may not reflect an accurate indication of academic ability\u2014including, for example, people without access to test preparation courses and tutors, those who can\u2019t afford to retake the test, people with learning and physical differences, and English language learners. This policy change also aligns with Augsburg\u2019s holistic admissions process, which looks at quantitative metrics and beyond. The application-review process allows Augsburg to maintain the university\u2019s academic standards and ensure Augsburg admits students with the capacity to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring, the Augsburg faculty approved a pilot test-optional admissions policy, making submission of ACT or SAT test scores optional for fall 2019 first-year and transfer undergraduate student applicants, except in specific circumstances. \u201cThe test-optional admission policy aligns with Augsburg\u2019s mission of intentional diversity and is expected to increase the university\u2019s pool of completed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-fall-winter-2018"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8939\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}