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A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are abandoning ACT and SAT scores as part of their admissions process. The so-called test-blind movement has gathered steam this year amid widespread cancellations of the standardized tests because of COVID-19.

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An increasing number of colleges and universities are canceling spring break six months ahead of time amid concerns about travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

While many bigger universities in cities decided to start off with remote learning, smaller campuses in smaller towns like Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont welcomed students with negative test results back, betting that the relative isolation could keep infections at bay.

Across the country, college students' mounting coronavirus outbreaks have become an urgent public health issue. Of the 25 hottest outbreaks in the U.S., communities heavy with college students represent 19 of them.

SOME COLLEGES AND universities inundated with spikes in coronavirus infections are sending students home despite high-ranking White House public health officials' warnings that doing so could ignite a national resurgence of COVID-19.

In the context of a pandemic that has killed about 190,000 Americans and economically devastated many millions more, getting into the college of your dreams is a boutique concern. But for many teenagers who have organized their school years around that goal, it’s everything. And it’s going to be different this admission season. It may well be different forevermore.

They got to have the capability of doing the testing to begin with. They got to have the capability of doing surveillance testing, as you get into the school year, and they have to have a plan of how they handle the inevitability of some students who are going to wind up getting affected Fauci said.

The pandemic has stripped education of its social context, and schools aren’t reckoning with the psychological tax on students.

As U.S. high schoolers prepare to submit millions of applications to the nation’s colleges and universities, they’re facing an unpredictable admissions cycle. Everything from standardized tests to extracurricular activities has changed, upending the application process and making the already stressful experience of getting into college even more nerve-wracking.

The consensus among health experts is that it’s easier to isolate sick or exposed students and trace their contacts if they stay put. Sending students home risks exposing other people there as well as along the way, and makes contact tracing all but impossible.