Test Optional Policy at UVA in Fall of 2026

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Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

what would 25/50/75 be then for 26?

Roughly the same as the pre-tedt optional fall 2020 CDS(accepted fall2019 and winter 20)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

what would 25/50/75 be then for 26?

The 25% will go back below 1350.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

1500+ SAT, yes. 1400? won't hurt to submit, but the kids should get that score up for UVA.

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Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

Like Amherst and Williams

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

Like Amherst and Williams

Why bring up these two schools? Not like they’re peers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

What is large to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

They can't go test optional without sacrificing their medians

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list of schools which have already dropped TO. https://horizoneducation.com/blog/colleges-dropping-reinstating-act-sat-requirements

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test required^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

Columbia, Princeton, UPenn, Duke, Rice, Chicago, Vanderbilt are all schools that are much better than UVA that haven't gone TR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

Columbia, Princeton, UPenn, Duke, Rice, Chicago, Vanderbilt are all schools that are much better than UVA that haven't gone TR.

Also... UVA hasn't gone test required (!!!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

They can't go test optional without sacrificing their medians

Not true with the elite public and privates. Not at all. UVA receives almost 60,000 apps a year. It's SCHEV median is a 4.4, 34 ACT and a 1470.That's not going to change because the demand for an elite public education at $160k a year compared to private at $400k (USC just passed $96k a year) is only going to increase the interest in top
publics. It's a simple analysis of supply and demand. All of the elite publics are seeing this, especially during covid when many families lost income and had to rethink the cost of higher ed. The next step would be for UVA/the Commknwealth to respond to taxpayers and reduce OOS and international from 26% to less than 8% as Cal, Texas, and N Carolina have done, but so far bills to do exactly that have never made it out of committee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.

They can't go test optional without sacrificing their medians

Not true with the elite public and privates. Not at all. UVA receives almost 60,000 apps a year. It's SCHEV median is a 4.4, 34 ACT and a 1470.That's not going to change because the demand for an elite public education at $160k a year compared to private at $400k (USC just passed $96k a year) is only going to increase the interest in top
publics. It's a simple analysis of supply and demand. All of the elite publics are seeing this, especially during covid when many families lost income and had to rethink the cost of higher ed. The next step would be for UVA/the Commknwealth to respond to taxpayers and reduce OOS and international from 26% to less than 8% as Cal, Texas, and N Carolina have done, but so far bills to do exactly that have never made it out of committee

Grammatical errors abound, UVA's medians would drop, no reduction of OOs will come with the cliff