Related<\/span>Arnett: Will Shift to Online Classes Speed Progress Toward Student-Centered Learning? Survey Hints at Some Ways Forward<\/h4><\/div><\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n\n
Whether the full transcript is helping or hurting student chances is still unclear. The consortium says 285 colleges have accepted at least one mastery transcript application so far, including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colleges are gaining familiarity with them, but still view them as an alternate form of application, like those of students from overseas or at other alternative schools, said Michelle Sandlin, interim associate director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. But she said colleges know they will have to adapt as they gain popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, the concern by high schools is real for now, but competency based records are already well known at the college level,\u201d Sandlin said. \u201cThe universities will develop admission requirements appropriately as they always have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creators of a grading system that ditches traditional A-F grades for a new \u201cmastery\u201d transcript know that\u2019s too big a leap for some schools to make, so they\u2019ve created a \u201cbridge\u201d that can ease students, parents and college admissions officers into the shift. \u201cThe single biggest barrier to adoption of the mastery transcript is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":705589,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[190],"tags":[1643,5679,5677,1560,1598,5676,5678],"series":[5583],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705595,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705585\/revisions\/705595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705585"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=705585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}