UVA - Holistic Review

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you think UVA will go back to requiring SAT scores, like UT Austin now has?

Yes.

Nearly all universities will soon drop T.O.

Well, I hope it happens for the coming year and not the one after!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think UVA will go back to requiring SAT scores, like UT Austin now has?

Yes.

Nearly all universities will soon drop T.O.

Well, I hope it happens for the coming year and not the one after!

U of Texas. Austin just dropped it. UVA’s board has it under consideration for fall of 2027 but should do it for 2026

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think UVA will go back to requiring SAT scores, like UT Austin now has?

Yes, eventually. The better question is when will they resume requiring either SAT or ACT?

[Anonymous]

Indeed, if a college keeps self-proclaiming how much they care about top rigor (and 4 yrs of foreign language), but admits almost half of its applicants who don’t bother to understand the very basic stuff tested in SAT/ACT, then it’s quite laughable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indeed, if a college keeps self-proclaiming how much they care about top rigor (and 4 yrs of foreign language), but admits almost half of its applicants who don’t bother to understand the very basic stuff tested in SAT/ACT, then it’s quite laughable!

Great, then cross that one off your list. Move along.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indeed, if a college keeps self-proclaiming how much they care about top rigor (and 4 yrs of foreign language), but admits almost half of its applicants who don’t bother to understand the very basic stuff tested in SAT/ACT, then it’s quite laughable!

Great, then cross that one off your list. Move along.

Though their approach makes sure there’s a huge mass of kids who are very behind. So it’s pretty difficult to get bad grades there 😉

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indeed, if a college keeps self-proclaiming how much they care about top rigor (and 4 yrs of foreign language), but admits almost half of its applicants who don’t bother to understand the very basic stuff tested in SAT/ACT, then it’s quite laughable!

Great, then cross that one off your list. Move along.

Though their approach makes sure there’s a huge mass of kids who are very behind. So it’s pretty difficult to get bad grades there 😉

That's not UVA. That's U of San Diego. https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/us-news/the-shocking-rise-of-gen-z-college-freshmen-who-cant-even-do-middle-school-math/#:~:text=The%20UC%20San%20Diego%20example,November%20study%20released%20by%20faculty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you think UVA will go back to requiring SAT scores, like UT Austin now has?

I'm frankly shocked it has taken this long.

There are plusses from the universities standpoint for not requiring standardized scores. It gives them more latitude to admit who they want without it impacting reported stats (e.g. can aid diversity), it results in higher published stats vs. test required, and it probably results in a higher number of applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indeed, if a college keeps self-proclaiming how much they care about top rigor (and 4 yrs of foreign language), but admits almost half of its applicants who don’t bother to understand the very basic stuff tested in SAT/ACT, then it’s quite laughable!

Great, then cross that one off your list. Move along.

Though their approach makes sure there’s a huge mass of kids who are very behind. So it’s pretty difficult to get bad grades there 😉

That's not UVA. That's U of San Diego. https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/us-news/the-shocking-rise-of-gen-z-college-freshmen-who-cant-even-do-middle-school-math/#:~:text=The%20UC%20San%20Diego%20example,November%20study%20released%20by%20faculty.

It’s true everywhere that’s test optional. But the faculty at UCSD had the guts to publish a detailed report.