Test Optional Policy at UVA in Fall of 2026

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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

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

Because it's economically infeasible. UVA has been one-third OOS since I went there as an OOS student the early 90s (and UNC was less than 20% OOS back then, too). It was a financial play then, and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim.

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.

I guess you are not aware tgat UVA has been financialky independent if the Commonwealth for almost a decade? If gave it up to have more academic freedom. Since then the endowment has shot up Today, UVA receives onky 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth which makes it unique among publics. Going TO will have no impact on SCHEV results/GPA test scores because the demand for a reasonable alternative to privates now heading towards $100k a year will not dissipate.

+1. UVA became independent of the Commonwealth in 2005. Since then, the endowment has soared to 16.9 billion. It can do anything it wants to do.

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Bump

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It seems likely to be a weekday announcement, so probably no news today

[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

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

Because it's economically infeasible. UVA has been one-third OOS since I went there as an OOS student the early 90s (and UNC was less than 20% OOS back then, too). It was a financial play then, and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim.

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.

I guess you are not aware tgat UVA has been financialky independent if the Commonwealth for almost a decade? If gave it up to have more academic freedom. Since then the endowment has shot up Today, UVA receives onky 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth which makes it unique among publics. Going TO will have no impact on SCHEV results/GPA test scores because the demand for a reasonable alternative to privates now heading towards $100k a year will not dissipate.

12% of UVA's budget comes from the state. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA management is mediocre and it reflects in their hesitancy to do away with TO.

lol. Try again. It's not "management" btw. It's James Ryan and the Board of Visitors and he/they have made it a T4 public university and T24 school nationwide.

They (Ryan and Board) didn't make it that. That is about where it has been. In fact, it was #1 public in USNWR national rankings at one time, so from that perspective it is falling. But USNWR is largely responsible for rising or falling as it depends on whatever criteria they are emphasizing at the time.

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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

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

Because it's economically infeasible. UVA has been one-third OOS since I went there as an OOS student the early 90s (and UNC was less than 20% OOS back then, too). It was a financial play then, and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim.

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.

I guess you are not aware tgat UVA has been financialky independent if the Commonwealth for almost a decade? If gave it up to have more academic freedom. Since then the endowment has shot up Today, UVA receives onky 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth which makes it unique among publics. Going TO will have no impact on SCHEV results/GPA test scores because the demand for a reasonable alternative to privates now heading towards $100k a year will not dissipate.

+1. UVA became independent of the Commonwealth in 2005. Since then, the endowment has soared to 16.9 billion. It can do anything it wants to do.

Everything you said is wrong.

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UVa is not private. It legally is a Virginia Public Corporation, meaning it is a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia government. BoV and Rector are appointed by the Governor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA management is mediocre and it reflects in their hesitancy to do away with TO.

lol. Try again. It's not "management" btw. It's James Ryan and the Board of Visitors and he/they have made it a T4 public university and T24 school nationwide.

They (Ryan and Board) didn't make it that. That is about where it has been. In fact, it was #1 public in USNWR national rankings at one time, so from that perspective it is falling. But USNWR is largely responsible for rising or falling as it depends on whatever criteria they are emphasizing at the time.

I don’t believe UVA ever held #1 public; however, it was #2 for quite a number of years. Solid school, resources and opportunities galore, beautiful campus…

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Anonymous wrote:UVa is not private. It legally is a Virginia Public Corporation, meaning it is a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia government. BoV and Rector are appointed by the Governor.

Nd it receives onky 6% of budget from the Commo wealth. see wiki or google it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA management is mediocre and it reflects in their hesitancy to do away with TO.

lol. Try again. It's not "management" btw. It's James Ryan and the Board of Visitors and he/they have made it a T4 public university and T24 school nationwide.

They (Ryan and Board) didn't make it that. That is about where it has been. In fact, it was #1 public in USNWR national rankings at one time, so from that perspective it is falling. But USNWR is largely responsible for rising or falling as it depends on whatever criteria they are emphasizing at the time.

I don’t believe UVA ever held #1 public; however, it was #2 for quite a number of years. Solid school, resources and opportunities galore, beautiful campus…

UVA was no 2 public for many years. That changed only because USNWR changed its algorithm to put more emphasis in Pell Grant percentages. UVA has no control over that. California wikk always have higher percentages due to higher poverty rate than VA

[Anonymous]

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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

Because it's economically infeasible. UVA has been one-third OOS since I went there as an OOS student the early 90s (and UNC was less than 20% OOS back then, too). It was a financial play then, and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim.

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.

I guess you are not aware tgat UVA has been financialky independent if the Commonwealth for almost a decade? If gave it up to have more academic freedom. Since then the endowment has shot up Today, UVA receives onky 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth which makes it unique among publics. Going TO will have no impact on SCHEV results/GPA test scores because the demand for a reasonable alternative to privates now heading towards $100k a year will not dissipate.

12% of UVA's budget comes from the state. What are you talking about?

wikipedia says 6%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVa is not private. It legally is a Virginia Public Corporation, meaning it is a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia government. BoV and Rector are appointed by the Governor.

No one said UVA is private. What they said was that the claim that tuition was not "sustainable" due to decreased funding was a falsehood made by someone who presumed it was funded 100% by the state. UVA wanted this shift in 2005 so it could be independent of the legislature, which it is today. If UVA decided to give up the remaining 6%, it could.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Because it's economically infeasible. UVA has been one-third OOS since I went there as an OOS student the early 90s (and UNC was less than 20% OOS back then, too). It was a financial play then, and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim.

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.

I guess you are not aware tgat UVA has been financialky independent if the Commonwealth for almost a decade? If gave it up to have more academic freedom. Since then the endowment has shot up Today, UVA receives onky 6% of its budget from the Commonwealth which makes it unique among publics. Going TO will have no impact on SCHEV results/GPA test scores because the demand for a reasonable alternative to privates now heading towards $100k a year will not dissipate.

12% of UVA's budget comes from the state. What are you talking about?

nope. 5.8% according to the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/how-much-state-funding-does-the-university-of-virginia-receive/2013/09/12/fb999782-1baf-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html#

[Anonymous]

Way to keep us distracted, but …. Any news on the actual policy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way to keep us distracted, but …. Any news on the actual policy?

Why even ask? Someone is going to post as soon as there's an official announcement.