[Goose]

On the heels of growing momentum, and already practiced in the UC system, the NCAA seems ready to eliminate any requirements for SAT/ACT in college athlete admissions.

How will this impact Stanford? Will Stanford still require standardized test scores at a certain level in order to be admitted to Stanford? Or will Stanford see the handwriting on the wall and just accept that grades, classes, essays, recommendations, and other special abilities athletic or otherwise are enough to determine who should be admitted?

It seems Stanford could increase its recruiting pools a bit if it drops standardized test score requirements, and would have its already small pools evaporate to almost nothing if it was the only D1 school to still require standardized test scores for admissions when the NCAA doesn't.

Thoughts?

I think the two are not related. The test score the NCAA required and the test score Stanford unilaterally requires are very different numbers. If Stanford removes their test score requirement it won't be because the NCAA did, but rather because Stanford has decided it is not a usefull admissions tool.
I am old enough to come from the era where it was generally accepted that you couldn't "study for the SATs", so nobody actually tried to do so. I can tell you from experience that your test score was certainly affected by the quality of your high school education. Standardized tests were originally an attempt to predict how well you would do academically without being affected by your previous education/life experience. Obviously, they never succeeded in doing this. These days they are even less useful because people have realized that you can prepare for any test and doing so will get you a better score. It is also inevitably true that if you had a better than average high school education and applied yourself, you will do better than somebody who had an average high school education and applied themselves. You will have taken more tests and been exposed to more reasoning opportunities in your better high school. So, even if one leaves race and economic situations aside, there are biases.
That said, I am not convinced standardized test results are useless. I think that if you scored quite high on the SAT, the odds are better that you will do well in college. I also think that the converse is often not true. If you scored middle of the road you may do great in college. There are other factors.

[Goose]

On the heels of growing momentum, and already practiced in the UC system, the NCAA seems ready to eliminate any requirements for SAT/ACT in college athlete admissions.

How will this impact Stanford? Will Stanford still require standardized test scores at a certain level in order to be admitted to Stanford? Or will Stanford see the handwriting on the wall and just accept that grades, classes, essays, recommendations, and other special abilities athletic or otherwise are enough to determine who should be admitted?

It seems Stanford could increase its recruiting pools a bit if it drops standardized test score requirements, and would have its already small pools evaporate to almost nothing if it was the only D1 school to still require standardized test scores for admissions when the NCAA doesn't.

Thoughts?

I think the two are not related. The test score the NCAA required and the test score Stanford unilaterally requires are very different numbers. If Stanford removes their test score requirement it won't be because the NCAA did, but rather because Stanford has decided it is not a usefull admissions tool.
I am old enough to come from the era where it was generally accepted that you couldn't "study for the SATs", so nobody actually tried to do so. I can tell you from experience that your test score was certainly affected by the quality of your high school education. Standardized tests were originally an attempt to predict how well you would do academically without being affected by your previous education/life experience. Obviously, they never succeeded in doing this. These days they are even less useful because people have realized that you can prepare for any test and doing so will get you a better score. It is also inevitably true that if you had a better than average high school education and applied yourself, you will do better than somebody who had an average high school education and applied themselves. You will have taken more tests and been exposed to more reasoning opportunities in your better high school. So, even if one leaves race and economic situations aside, there are biases.
That said, I am not convinced standardized test results are useless. I think that if you scored quite high on the SAT, the odds are better that you will do well in college. I also think that the converse is often not true. If you scored middle of the road you may do great in college. There are other factors.