UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, and clearly each person‘s mileage will vary on this, I would not pay OOS fees higher than my in-state public options for any public university.

This is just a personal choice. Different students are different. Different families are different. Do whichever makes sense for your family.

And I’d just add: different states and different schools are different too. Your refusal to pay more for out of state might make perfect sense for your student and your family so long as you live in Virginia, then suddenly come to seem mistaken when you move to West Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for engineering 1550 SAT, 3.9 GPA (UW), ok ECs but none ‘engineering related’.

Interestingly….in at VTech, a T5 (with Honors college), a T10 and a T20.

Which T5 had an honors college?

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True. There isn’t one. Good catch

Purdue - 5th for Graduate, 8th for overall undergraduate and in the top 5 for what DC wants to study….but thanks for the gotcha 🙄

How convenient that you didn't specify that earlier, knowing full well that most readers would think T5 referred to the school as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

My kids are on Medicaid and it covers only a small geographic area right around where we live. So my kids always have to get the school health insurance. Stanford is the most expensive. About $8k per year. But for most kids on Medicaid, their financial need is high enough that the school usually covers all of part of the health insurance plan. The cost of the health insurance plan and any financial aid for that is something I consider when evaluating the total COA.

That’s Bean soup. I think you know that.

Your situation is unusual.

UVA and W&M won’t give additional grants to cover school health insurance so it’s been cheaper for my kids to attend OOS privates (evaluating the total COA including health insurance and our expected family contribution)

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

I was dumbfounded when I saw the oos price! It’s not even in an expensive city!!

IT’s only $80k for OOS, not what the PP is trying trying to claim (they are citing a tiny program for 3rd and 4th year because they got caught lying here. UVA is the same for OOS as the other great publics: UCLA, Cal, Michigan.

Correct. It's 80K for the college of arts and science which is where about 80% of kids attend. Sure, few kids join the Commerce (business) school but that is next to impossible to get into so it's highly unlikely it will be your experience or your tuition bill.
Also, you're not paying $4k in health insurance unless your family is not insured. And this is the same at any college: you don't have insurance, you have to buy the university plan and it's always around $4K for the year and sometimes more.

Dp, I wouldn’t say the business program is niche, seems like half the kids I know, of not more, want to be business majors.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

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Certain programs go up in price last 2 years.

Depends on your school within UVA. Some are $95K. School of Commerce (McIntire) is shown as 94,200 to 95,590 in the 3rd and 4th year.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in NOVA, it is very hard to get into UVA even with 35+ ACT and 1550+ SAT and incredible ECs. You are compared to the peers at your high school. At my child’s school those peers also have great applications. I have no idea how they pick one great kid over another. For every amazing kid who got an acceptance tonight there’s an amazing kid who didn’t.
It does all work out in the end. I mean, if your absolute dream is UVA do the community college associate’s degree route and transfer.

Maybe go to a less gunner school? At our public every kid over 4.4 and 1500 pretty much gets in, according to the scatterplot from the last 5 years.

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anyone who got in with a GPA less than 4.2

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

I was dumbfounded when I saw the oos price! It’s not even in an expensive city!!

IT’s only $80k for OOS, not what the PP is trying trying to claim (they are citing a tiny program for 3rd and 4th year because they got caught lying here. UVA is the same for OOS as the other great publics: UCLA, Cal, Michigan.

Correct. It's 80K for the college of arts and science which is where about 80% of kids attend. Sure, few kids join the Commerce (business) school but that is next to impossible to get into so it's highly unlikely it will be your experience or your tuition bill.
Also, you're not paying $4k in health insurance unless your family is not insured. And this is the same at any college: you don't have insurance, you have to buy the university plan and it's always around $4K for the year and sometimes more.

Dp, I wouldn’t say the business program is niche, seems like half the kids I know, of not more, want to be business majors.

Well that's lovely but only a tiny fraction of them will get a business/Commerce spot. It's niche.
And the rest of them will stay in Arts and Sciences and study economics for $80K a year.

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Anonymous wrote:anyone who got in with a GPA less than 4.2

That’s a kid with a bunch of B’s at most schools. I doubt they’re getting in without extenuating circumstances (illness, moved)

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Anonymous wrote:anyone who got in with a GPA less than 4.2

Probably recruited athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in NOVA, it is very hard to get into UVA even with 35+ ACT and 1550+ SAT and incredible ECs. You are compared to the peers at your high school. At my child’s school those peers also have great applications. I have no idea how they pick one great kid over another. For every amazing kid who got an acceptance tonight there’s an amazing kid who didn’t.
It does all work out in the end. I mean, if your absolute dream is UVA do the community college associate’s degree route and transfer.

Maybe go to a less gunner school? At our public every kid over 4.4 and 1500 pretty much gets in, according to the scatterplot from the last 5 years.

But that was NOT the PP’s point. And you failed to indicate your child’s HS. What the PP wrote was:

“ If you are in NOVA, it is very hard to get into UVA even with 35+ ACT and 1550+ SAT and incredible ECs. You are compared to the peers at your high school. At my child’s school those peers also have great applications. I have no idea how they pick one great kid over another. For every amazing kid who got an acceptance tonight there’s an amazing kid who didn’t.
It does all work out in the end. I mean, if your absolute dream is UVA do the community college associate’s degree route and transfer. “

From a NOVA public, it is nearly impossible to get into UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, and clearly each person‘s mileage will vary on this, I would not pay OOS fees higher than my in-state public options for any public university.

This is just a personal choice. Different students are different. Different families are different. Do whichever makes sense for your family.

Good luck getting into VT then. I know many VA families of prospective engineers who did not get in to VTand had to go to OOS for what they wanted. A few went to GMU’s great engineering program.

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Anonymous wrote:OOS tuition helps keep IS costs lower. Isn’t this pretty common at public colleges?

Yes, it’s used by the universities and their states to help fund in-state kids. That’s why UVA’s OOS class is so large compared to UNC, UCLA, Texas, etc. Thisis important to UVA because UVA gets only 6% of its operating budget from the Commonwealth, which makes it unique amongst state schools. UVA is almost entirely self-funded.

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Anonymous wrote:anyone who got in with a GPA less than 4.2

Not given anywhere yet. 75th percentile is a 4.5. The median has a 4.4. Bottom 25th percentile is 4.2.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

I was dumbfounded when I saw the oos price! It’s not even in an expensive city!!

IT’s only $80k for OOS, not what the PP is trying trying to claim (they are citing a tiny program for 3rd and 4th year because they got caught lying here. UVA is the same for OOS as the other great publics: UCLA, Cal, Michigan.

Correct. It's 80K for the college of arts and science which is where about 80% of kids attend. Sure, few kids join the Commerce (business) school but that is next to impossible to get into so it's highly unlikely it will be your experience or your tuition bill.
Also, you're not paying $4k in health insurance unless your family is not insured. And this is the same at any college: you don't have insurance, you have to buy the university plan and it's always around $4K for the year and sometimes more.

Dp, I wouldn’t say the business program is niche, seems like half the kids I know, of not more, want to be business majors.

Well that's lovely but only a tiny fraction of them will get a business/Commerce spot. It's niche.
And the rest of them will stay in Arts and Sciences and study economics for $80K a year.

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