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Olivia Forester \u201921<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A name appearing on a recent Dean\u2019s List is the same one representing Transylvania\u2019s Student Activities Board as president. Student leader Olivia Forester \u201921 has been active in food justice initiatives, as a tutor at the Carnegie Center and volunteer coordinator for the peer tutoring program partnered by Calvary Baptist Church and the Charles Young Center. But without Transylvania\u2019s embrace of a test-optional admissions policy in 2016, Forester\u2019s thoughtful intelligence and commitment to service would have been missing from campus and the Lexington community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forester will be graduating this year with a major in writing, rhetoric, and communication and a minor in art history (with a fine arts scholarship). She says she didn\u2019t attend Transy for the degree as much as she did to be challenged. She wanted to experience something different from the community she\u2019d known all her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to come here to be a lifelong learner,\u201d she says. But as a high school student, she never imagined such an opportunity would be hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forester grew up in a rural western Kentucky community that she loves, in a county that, she points out, hasn\u2019t a single traffic light. And although the community nurtured her sense of service and personal character, it lacked the resources to fully nourish her hunger to learn and her desire for opportunities to experience something different from her surroundings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She caught a glimpse of that possibility when she attended the Kentucky Governor\u2019s Scholars Program. Then her high school AP English teacher, Jennifer Ashley Dooley ’98, invited her to tour Transy\u2019s campus. Forester was smitten by the sense of community and the idea of living in a city and all that it offers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until that campus tour, attending an intimate liberal arts university had never seemed within reach of Forester. In spite of earning a 4.5 GPA while being active in seven organizations and working outside of school, she worried that she wasn\u2019t \u201csmart\u201d enough. She carried that burden because standardized tests had never been her forte and she knew that test scores were the ultimate hurdle before being accepted into a highly ranked private university. She thought she hadn\u2019t the resources to compete with students and secondary institutions that could offer their students special test preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But during her tour of Transy, staff introduced her to Kentucky\u2019s first test-optional policy that gives students the choice of not submitting test scores as part of their application. Transy\u2019s policy recognizes that a student\u2019s abilities and commitment to learning shouldn\u2019t be defined by a test score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot every student is a good test-taker,\u201d says Johnnie Johnson, Transylvania\u2019s vice president for admissions, \u201cbut they can still be good students. Going test-optional has opened up our application to audiences that might not have considered Transy as an option. We’re providing another avenue toward getting their education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forester\u2019s presence as a talented student leader shows what happens when a policy in theory becomes a policy in practice. It opened her world and future, and it brought her perspective to campus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI always felt that the ACT was never a true measure of me,\u201d Forester says, before pointing to a larger consideration. \u201cThe test-optional policy really bridges the socio-economic gap that exists around standardized tests.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Transy, Forester could fully explore the liberal arts that she loves. She reveled in unexpected new interests. She measured her depth of her learning by the connections she began to make between her classes and experiences; e.g., how learning about abstraction in her computer science class contributed to her understanding of cubism in her art history class, and was further illuminated during a visit to the Tate Gallery in London, where she stood in front of the paintings she\u2019d studied on the page and computer screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve grown so much,\u201d she says, reflecting on her overall undergraduate experience. \u201cI really am a different person from when I started out here.\u201d She gently laughs as she recalls her early naivety as she learned to navigate college and city life. Yet, the young woman who bravely arrived in Lexington with little experience of how to interpret city street signs, would embrace the city, study abroad and apply for Fulbright and Peace Corps opportunities in her senior year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI learned how to adapt,\u201d she says, throwing herself into the most challenging classes and experiences. Now she can\u2019t imagine not coming to Transy. \u201cI almost don\u2019t want to imagine that,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With COVID-19 restricting her dream of teaching abroad, she\u2019s also applying to Teach for America. Recognizing how much she has benefited from higher education, she\u2019d like to make the same opportunities possible for others. \u201cJust because of where you live doesn\u2019t disqualify you,\u201d she insists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, Forester will attend law school with the idea of addressing deficiencies in the immigration and education systems. She understands that having access to quality education is lifesaving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know it sounds corny,\u201d she says, \u201cbut it\u2019s being the change you want to see. We\u2019ve all been given opportunities. I want to give more people these opportunities. It shouldn\u2019t be different because of where you\u2019re from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up, she says, \u201cI felt like I was living in a snow globe. I could see the world but not be part of it.\u201d The politics and culture of her county defined that world. \u201cThen when I arrived at Transy, I saw that the world was so much bigger. That\u2019s why I was so eager to study abroad.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming to Transy, she says, \u201cI wanted an education that was going to sustain me for my whole life. So much of Transy is that you get out of it what you put in. I\u2019m really blessed that I got to make my mark,\u201d she concludes. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten that true education I sought to get.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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