A Michigan high school denied a girl's request to be excused from taking the SAT over COVID-19 fears. She tested positive for the virus after taking the test in person.

• The family of a 17-year-old girl at Bloomfield Hills High School in Michigan requested not to take an in-person SAT exam with her classmates in September over fears of contracting COVID-19.
• The school denied her request, saying taking the exam was required by the state for graduation, even though Michigan does not have such a requirement.
• The teen tested positive for COVID-19 days after taking the exam, and had to isolate from her high-risk mother for nearly two months over fears of passing on COVID-19.

A senior at a Michigan high school who had requested to be excused from taking the SAT exam in person over COVID-19 concerns tested positive for the virus after taking the test when administrators told her it was required.

The family of a Bloomfield Hills High School senior, who has not been publicly named, told the Detroit Free Press that they had asked the 17-year-old be excused from the September exam because her mother is at a high risk of developing serious COVID-19 complications, and they didn't want her to catch the virus while taking the in-person test with other students.

Administrators falsely told her family that the SAT was a state requirement for graduating, the newspaper reported. Michigan does not require students to take the SAT or other exams before graduating - though the Free Press reported that exams like the SAT and ACT can help school districts fulfill testing mandates at state and federal levels.

The girl ended up taking the exam with the rest of her class, believing it was required, and shortly after tested positive for COVID-19.

While it's unclear where exactly she contracted the virus, the girl tested positive "well within the incubation period of COVID-19" if she had contracted it at the SAT exam, her physician, Lydia Rising, told the Free Press.

The 17-year-old, who said she wore two masks during the exam, then spent two months isolating in her bedroom to protect her mother from the virus.

She hasn't received her SAT score.

Because of COVID-19 complications, hundreds of colleges and universities have opted to waive SAT and ACT requirements for 2021 applicants, and the 17-year-old has already been accepted to four schools in Michigan without her score, including Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University.

Neither Bloomfield Hills High School nor Dr. Rising did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Bloomfield Hills High School suspended in-person classes in November.