SAT Testing Canceled For Aug. 29 At Howard County School Sites

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — The Aug. 29 SAT testing scheduled at several Howard County Public School System buildings will not be held due to the coronavirus and subsequent school closure. The test was to have been administered Saturday at Centennial, Glenelg, Hammond, Mount Hebron, Reservoir, River Hill and Wilde Lake high schools.

The school district has not announced whether it will administer the test as originally planned on Sept. 26 at Centennial, Glenelg, Oakland Mills and Reservoir high schools. Depending upon the coronavirus-related restrictions in place at that time, HCPSS officials may need to cancel or reduce capacity.

Currently, the College Board allows test site administrators to decide whether or not they are comfortable holding testing sessions. The College Board did cancel May and June test dates due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Due to high school seniors' inability to take the SAT in person due to the coronavirus, many colleges are waiving test scores for admission. Harvard University announced it will not require test scores from applicants for fall 2021. Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Brown universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College are among many universities making the same declaration.

The College Board has added a September SAT to their fall schedule for those areas that can host in-person testing. The current calendar of fall 2020 SATs approved by the College Board are:

• Saturday, Aug. 29
• Saturday, Sept. 26 (new)
• Saturday, Oct. 3
• Saturday, Nov. 7
• Saturday, Dec. 5
• January 2021 TBD – likely to be announced this fall to address demand

Testing site closures statewide and nationwide can be found here.