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March 19, 2021

The Campus Tour Has Been Cancelled

How the pandemic has thrown college admissions process into a kind of slow-motion chaos. One of the biggest changes: most colleges have stopped requiring the SAT. For decades, there’s been a debate over whether schools should drop the test. What’s it mean that it finally happened?

Jennifer Heuer

Prologue

Prologue

Host Ira Glass takes us on a tour of the various ways the pandemic has affected going to college this year. (9 minutes)

Act One

Act One

Reporter Paul Tough and Host Ira Glass look at the biggest change in admissions this year: colleges no longer requiring the SATs. Paul speaks to a student whose SAT score determined her future. Ira speaks to admissions officers around the country about what no SATs will mean for them and the future of college admissions. (27 minutes)

Paul Tough's most recent book is The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us.