Anonymous wrote:Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

Like Amherst and Williams

Interestingly every other large public VA school including W&M, JMU and Va Tech is remaining test optional.

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Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

1500+ SAT, yes. 1400? won't hurt to submit, but the kids should get that score up for UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

what would 25/50/75 be then for 26?

The 25% will go back below 1350.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

what would 25/50/75 be then for 26?

Roughly the same as the pre-tedt optional fall 2020 CDS(accepted fall2019 and winter 20)

Anonymous wrote:If they go back to requiring testing it will be much easier to sue post-SFFA. Hopefully the committee will vote accordingly.

Hopefully not because ALL of the TO success testing has demonstrated TO has been a failure for the students, the faculty and the schools. It would be unconscionable for a public university to continue it (Yes, UC Regents are eating it and trying to figure out what to do)

And name one college or university sued by DOJ or States Attorneys Generals over the scotus decision. One.

TO schools get more apps and love bragging about the low acceptance rate.

Now that it is almost January…. Do we have any additional details on when this committee meets or when we will know?

If they go back to requiring testing it will be much easier to sue post-SFFA. Hopefully the committee will vote accordingly.

Anonymous wrote:Do we know for 2026 if there will still be to?

Decision in January

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child toured UVA this weekend, and at the information session, I was surprised to hear that UVA had yet to decide on testing for the fall of 2026 admits. Does anyone have any insight? Do you think they will return to test-required as other schools have? I don't have a strong feeling about this one way or the other. I'm just curious.

They have already said they will announce in January. I am hoping for test required. That will be good news for the 1400+ kids.

Source?

Dean J said a committee would be making the decision in January.

Do we know for 2026 if there will still be to?

Anonymous wrote:UVA called my kid and told them they were going test optional.

Not true.

Very few are test mandatory. It is like a snowball, once it starts rolling down hill it'll get bigger much quicker. Unfortunately with the VAST majority of top schools still TO that snowball is just slowly rolling for now.

Anonymous wrote:TO was never really TO outside of the COVID years.

Just not true. My UMC white kid got in TO.