(08-10-2023, 05:17 PM)dabigv13 Wrote: California recruits can still play close to home if they go to USC and UCLA, they just have to travel farther for road games a few times a year. Presuming there are California recruits not interested in Stanford but who would prefer it if they were in a conference that played more bad West Coast teams instead of bad Midwest teams, there is still the issue of admissions. Stanford will always have to recruit nationally because of that.
Tangential, but maybe the likely upcoming dropping of standardized testing for admissions, as has already happened at UC's, will somewhat broaden our recruiting pool. Shame it will matter less if we're in the Mountain/Pac.
FWLIW, Dartmouth has decided to resume standardized testing for the class of 2029 (following MIT in February, 2022).
Dartmouth to resume standardized test score requirement for prospective students
Dartmouth had been standardized test-optional since 2020. Decision was based upon this study:
sat-undergrad-admissions.pdf (dartmouth.edu)
Opportunity Insights, based at Harvard, completed this study which confirms those findings (Harvard itself is test-optional through the class of 2030).
SAT_ACT_on_Grades.pdf (opportunityinsights.org)
Columbia rejected standardized testing last March: Columbia is Test-Optional | Columbia Undergraduate Admissions
1,900 colleges remain test-optional, and 84 will not review student scores under any circumstance.
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