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Neutuch discusses the efforts of school counselors in the US to adapt their communication methods, prediction, and advice for students due to the COVID-19 pandemic Schools transitioned to remote learning, extracurricular activities vanished into thin air, and in-person visits to colleges were abandoned The SAT and ACT calendars for the late spring were wiped out and subsequent plans for at-home testing were abandoned After the collapse of the testing calendars, hundreds of colleges switched to testoptional for the coming admission cycle, including the eight Ivy League institutions Advanced Placement (AP) exams, once two to three hour grinds, became 45-minute open-book at-home tests College counseling work was also turned upsidedown During the springtime period of remote learning, counselors gauged the emotions of adolescents via Zoom interfaces, held online parent nights, and answered questions about ever-shifting testing calendars
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