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Test Optional Colleges and Universities

For a very long time the SAT and ACT are tests that have haunted and sometimes even hurt the odds of admission for students, but many schools are changing their minds about these tests. Here are five schools that've decided to go test-optional. So if you're worried about the SAT or ACT, check out one of these schools!

Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, Connecticut) a Catholic university located in suburban Connecticut. SHU is the second largest Catholic university in New England, behind Boston College, and offers more than 40 degree programs to 5,800 students at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. Sacred Heart is included in the Princeton Review's Best 368 Colleges 2009, the Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges 2008, the Best 290 Business Schools 2008, as well as U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges.

Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minnesota) a private liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a coeducational, four-year, residential institution founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans. To this day the school closely identifies with its Swedish heritage, which has motivated the institution to develop a Scandinavian Studies program and ties to the Nobel Foundation. The premier event on campus is the Nobel Conference, which features Nobel-Prize-winning speakers and other world-renowned scholars explaining their expertise to a general audience.

State University of New York at Potsdam (Potsdam, New York) a public university located in the Village of Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. Founded in 1816, it is among the 100 oldest colleges in the United States. It is composed of the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Education and Professional Studies, and the renowned Crane School of Music.

Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois) a private liberal arts college enrolling approximately 2,500 students. Covering 115 acres of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River. A large percentage of the student body takes part in a wide variety of groups and activities related to the performing arts, theatre, debate, publications, broadcasting, student government, and a broad spectrum of professional, religious, departmental, political, social, and service organizations.

Green Mountain College (Poultney, VT) a coeducational private environmental liberal arts college. Known as Vermont's Environmental Liberal Arts College, Green Mountain is located in the Vermont countryside, at the foot of the Taconic Mountains between the Green Mountains and Adirondacks. The College has a core set of courses known as the Environmental Liberal Arts (ELA) curriculum, designed to create students well-rounded in environmental and natural sciences, writing, reading, history and philosophy.

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Published on March 4, 2010 by Janet | Read all recent School Girl articles.