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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional. [/quote]

UVA will take the lead, as usual. The Ivies have already done it.[/quote]
They can't go test optional without sacrificing their medians[/quote]

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[/quote]

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, [b]and state funding has only gotten worse in the interim. [/b]

And none of the "elite publics" has gone test-required.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

+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.[/quote]

It isn't independent of the Commonwealth.  There was a law passed that gave schools (including W&M and Virginia Tech initially and now more schools), but that is different from independence.  They are all state institutions, subject to many levels of state control.  It can't do anything it wants.  You are overstating the endowment (NACUBO is the source that does apples-to-apples comparisons, and much of it belongs to specific programs (like the medical school) that don't have any undergraduates.[/quote]

^ This is the restructuring (not independence) act: https://www.schev.edu/institutions/planning-performance/restructuring-act[/quote]

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