UVA In-State 2026 Results – What Got You In (or Not)?

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it’s 100% based on gpa.
Mine got all of these including Varsity captain, but was less than 4.4

Agree. They removed supplemental essays. They made it clear a strong GPA and transcript trend is very important since it shows over 4 years. SAT score and ECs are just additional data points. Mine got off the waitlist at 4.4+ and 1580.

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Anonymous wrote:DS was deferred for engineering. 12 APs, all honors available if AP wasn't offered. One B. Test optional. 4 year varsity starter with regional awards, high ranked club team all 4 years. Volunteer hours. Spanish IV, but did not take anything Junior year due to schedule conflicts. Took Calc BC as a junior than ran out of math and took AP Statistics senior year. In STEM program at school. Got into VT, which was his first choice, so didn't opt in to be reconsidered after being deferred.

Congrats to your DS for getting into VT.

What was the rationale for going test optional? I would think for engineering it would be harder admit without test scores -- i.e., the admissions officer(s) would really like to see how the student does on the SAT or ACT, especially for math.

My family may be going through this process next year, which is one reason I am asking.

He had a good score, but with UVA’s 25 percentile being 1410, didn’t seem worth the effort to get it up that high. Took advantage of test optional since his score didn’t help his application. Since he got into his top choice was a good strategy. If he really wanted to go to UVA maybe, maybe not. Unfortunately colleges don’t tell you why you didn’t get in.

If he didn’t even get a 1420, he didn’t have a “good score.”

We will probably have to agree to disagree on what is a good score. A 1400 is 93rd percentile. I would consider that great. With test optional you really have to have great to amazing to be worth it to submit.

I think most on DCUM would agree that a 1400 is not an objectively good score on the SAT. It is fine, but not “good.” lol

You're delusional.

You are delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:DS was deferred for engineering. 12 APs, all honors available if AP wasn't offered. One B. Test optional. 4 year varsity starter with regional awards, high ranked club team all 4 years. Volunteer hours. Spanish IV, but did not take anything Junior year due to schedule conflicts. Took Calc BC as a junior than ran out of math and took AP Statistics senior year. In STEM program at school. Got into VT, which was his first choice, so didn't opt in to be reconsidered after being deferred.

Congrats to your DS for getting into VT.

What was the rationale for going test optional? I would think for engineering it would be harder admit without test scores -- i.e., the admissions officer(s) would really like to see how the student does on the SAT or ACT, especially for math.

My family may be going through this process next year, which is one reason I am asking.

He had a good score, but with UVA’s 25 percentile being 1410, didn’t seem worth the effort to get it up that high. Took advantage of test optional since his score didn’t help his application. Since he got into his top choice was a good strategy. If he really wanted to go to UVA maybe, maybe not. Unfortunately colleges don’t tell you why you didn’t get in.

If he didn’t even get a 1420, he didn’t have a “good score.”

We will probably have to agree to disagree on what is a good score. A 1400 is 93rd percentile. I would consider that great. With test optional you really have to have great to amazing to be worth it to submit.

I think most on DCUM would agree that a 1400 is not an objectively good score on the SAT. It is fine, but not “good.” lol

Eat me. It's the 93rd to 95th percentile.

Now we know you are a teen. A higher score would have helped you get into UVA. That is a fact. 1400 is good for JMU and VT, but it isn’t good enough for UVA unless you have a hook of some sort. FYI, percentiles don’t matter. Those are calculated using all scorers, which includes kids that are required to take the SAT by their state or school district in order to graduate. So kids in remedial classes take it and score really low.

UVA enrolled 3,961 freshman
Only 45% submitted an SAT score
Only 14% submitted an ACT score
Approximately 51% submitted ANY score

Of those that did, only 450 scored above 1410 on the SAT,

About 2,500 UVA freshman have an SAT or ACT equivalent below 1400. Or roughly 70% of UVA's freshman class.

What year are these statistics this from? I bet the % accepted test optional is lower for the 2026 incoming class. No one was admitted test optional from our private school this year. All accepted students were submitting 1480+ scores, with most hovering around 1550/35. I am looking at the 2026 scattergram right now. Maybe they let in a lot of test optional public school kids? At our school you 100% need to submit a high score to get in.

Latest SCHEV data:
https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/234076/University-of-Virginia
Submitted Scores
1,961
SAT V 700 740 760
SAT M710 750 780
High School GPA 3116 4.2 4.4 4.5
ACT_Composite 578 32 33 35

The overwhelming number of students at UVA have SAT scores below 1410.