d curricular activities that's more than filling in bubbles on a saturday morning. >> it was already headed in this direction but it appears the pandemic will be the death of the standardized test as we knew it. >> it certainly is true that test optional admissions is the new normal for the foreseeable future. a few schools will continue requiring the test. the u.s. service academies whose policies are made by congress, a couple conservative states where admission policies are determined by political appointees like georgia and florida are requiring the test and a number of small conservative religious colleges still have a testing requirement, but for the vast majority of students now in high school, there will be no requirement to take the a.c.t. or s.a.t. we're up well over 75% of all colleges and universities in the country do not require test scores for the next couple years. >> i am as a parent four time veteran of the process. now, i think, thankfully