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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is doing an awful job of managing expectations here. It's as if nobody on BOV are parents themselves and do not know what it's like to have kids this age.  Most juniors have upcoming summer jobs (or year-round jobs), internships, take summer classes to free up space for electives.  They need to be giving kids as much notice to prep for these tests. Most juniors (especially applying to UVA) don't have a lot of free time and are already focused on AP tests in May/June.  Kudos to schools who have already decided and announced for next year and even years beyond.  If schools decide to go back to requiring tests, that's their right, but give people ample notice. UVA is failing here.[/quote]

UVA alum with a high school junior here. I would never tell my kid that test optional is a given at UVA or anywhere else. Your kid should be prepping to do their best on the test regardless of when the BOV is meeting. Your kid can’t fit in a few hours of test prep here and there over an entire summer?[/quote]

This is like telling someone to go ahead and train for the marathon, but they may not have to run the race.  Working for a school district, I understand that many kids have extreme test anxiety, ADD/ADHD, so I get that parents want to know if this is something that they need to be planning to take.  UVA should join the other state schools on their level (UNC Chapel Hill, Michigan) who have announced their decision.  [/quote]

UVA is a by no means a guarantee… so you plan to tell your kid to only apply to colleges that are TO and assume they’ll all stay that way?[/quote]

Nobody is saying that UVA is a guarantee.  But considering my child is only applying to college once, in the Fall 2026 (BTW the name of this thread) then that is all we care about. And if they choose to only apply to TO schools, then they have a lot of great schools to choose from.  Whether or not schools stay TO after that, is irrelevant. [/quote]

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