The state Board of Regents has agreed to test new admissions standards for some of Louisiana’s universities.

Under the new policy, four-year regional institutions will be able to admit students who require a developmental, or remedial course. Currently, a student who scores on the ACT below an 18 in English or a 19 in math can’t enroll at the state’s public universities without a waiver because he or she would have to take a remedial course at a two-year college. The standards are a minimum, so individually, colleges could opt out of the new provision.

The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/1J4Y566) the students will still have to have passed the required core high school courses and meet all of the other admissions standards, including minimum grade-point averages and minimum composite ACT scores.