New Bemidji State students will no longer need to submit their ACT or SAT test scores when applying for a new program.
According to a release, incoming freshman can apply for the merit-based scholarship program, which will include three scholarships ranging from $2 to $10 thousand dollars.
Traditional scholarship criteria takes class rank, GPA and ACT or SAT test scores into account, with a minimum 22 ACT score and an 1100 SAT score, but the new criteria will allow students to be considered for scholarships based on their unweighted high school GPA.
The decision to forego the test scores was to support students who didn’t have the opportunity to take the tests due to COVID-19.
