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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Virginia Tech, GMU, William and Mary, VCU, UVA... all of these schools set up testing as a requirement. They all seems to be doing okay.[/quote]

I was going to have my sophomore JMU student get tested before returning, and it looked like he need to have symptoms, underlying conditions or a known exposure in order to even qualify for a test, so I'll admit that we skipped it.  Maybe I misunderstood how widely available testing is in Northern VA.  [b]I know that students at some schools received tests in the mail to self-administer - did any VA schools do that?[/b]

He's off campus and plans to stay.  If I had a freshman at JMU or just about any campus this year, I don't think I would have moved them in and probably would have pushed a deferral.

For the record, he actually applied to the school - excellent faculty in his major (there were no other reasonable options for the major in VA and he wants to save $$$ for grad school). [/quote]

This is what VCU did. [/quote]

If you administer the test yourself you’re not going to put the stick as high in your nose than if someone else administered it; therefore, a lot of false negatives.
VCU, GMU and W&M all did pre-testing via self-administration (though there's some worry about that because it is self-administered and some critique that it's not appropriate).  Looking at these school's stats they all have really low positives.  I'm concerned the tests weren't sensitive enough but I'm not an expert.[/quote][/quote]

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