How has the pandemic changed the application process?

This was taken from a comment made by www.reddit.com/user/ScholarGrade on a post about this topic:

• Episodes 3 and 12 of the Inside The Yale Admissions Office podcast talk about Covid, the impact, and their process: https://admissions.yale.edu/podcast
• Several posts on the MIT Admissions blog (which is excellent by the way) about Covid, etc: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/
• Same with the Georgia Tech Admissions blog. See this post, as well as several others: https://sites.gatech.edu/admission-blog/2021/01/21/same-kind-of-different/
• Same with the Tulane Admissions blog. As with MIT, I'm linking the whole blog because several of the articles are on point: http://tuadmissionjeff.blogspot.com/
• Our own /u/UVADeanJ commented on this thread too, but her blog is also excellent. http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/ She's got articles about how Covid has impacted GPAs, SAT & test optionality, their evaluation process, and more.