Stanford Test Optional 2024 Test Optional. Each graduate program sets its own policy on gre general test and gre subject test scores — required, optional, or not considered. Check out our list of sat and act test optional colleges for the fall 2025 admissions cycle.
Stanford will resume requiring either the sat or the act for undergraduate admission, beginning with students applying in fall 2025 for admission to the class of 2030. Test scores represent only one part of a holistic review of each applicant to the university, for which academic potential.