Georgia is dropping the SAT and ACT requirements for admission to junior colleges and some four-year schools.

Georgia Perimeter College in DeKalb County is one of the schools impacted by this. All students will need to get in will be a 2.0 grade point average (that's a C) in a college prep course of study, or a 2.2 average in a technical course of study.

The test scores were previously part of a "Freshman Index" that blocked many  from getting in.

High school counselors praised the move, saying that a lot of their kids in technical programs (non college prep) weren't getting tough enough math to make good SAT scores, and were thus discouraged from applying to college at all.

Dr. Daniel Papp (left) , the University System senior vice chancellor for academic and fiscal affairs (and a candidate to head the whole University System) said that Wisconsin was the only other state to require SATs for admission to junior college, and that grades were a better predictor of success than the SAT anyway.

The big prestige schools -- UGA, Tech, Georgia State, Georgia Southern -- will still require the tests. And you better do well or you're not going, not right out of high school anyway. But if you just slipped through high school, maybe slept through geometry, you got another chance. Go to junior college, and maybe with good grades and good recommendations you too can be a Bulldog. Or a Panther. Or an Eagle. Probably not a Yellow Jacket, though.