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Stanford University will remove admissions test requirements for the upcoming school year in response to COVID-19... Most notably, Stanford Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the country, will not require the MCAT. ... Stanford’s School of Medicine will not require students to take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), the standardized test for medical degree candidates. Stanford Medicine said that applications can be submitted without the MCAT through September 30, 2020 “in fairness to all applicants.” ... Stanford's physics department will not have to submit scores for the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) or the GRE subject test in...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading infectious disease expert, will join Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of Stanford Medical School, for what the university is billing as a "virtual fireside chat" about California's battle with the surging coronanvirus. Fauci has directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than 30 years. He's advised six presidents on a range of viral epidemics — HIV, Ebola and avian influenza, among others — and is a leading voice arguing for measures meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. This year, he has so frequently advocated mask-wearing and social distancing...