More colleges are becoming test optional for admission

Augustana College in Rock Island in the Quad Cities. Its board voted to make the institution test-optional all the way back in 2007. Northern Illinois University announced in January of 2020 that it would start “test-blind” admissions beginning with the fall of 2021 class. Since a law took effect in January of last year, students applying to any public college or university in Illinois have had the option to not submit admissions test scores.

GUESTS: 

Kent Barnds

Executive Vice President of External Relations, Augustana College

Sol Jensen

Vice President for Enrollment Management, Marketing and Communications, Northern Illinois University

State Sen. Christopher Belt

(D-East St. Louis)

Former State Rep. LaToya Greenwood

(D-East St. Louis)