Anonymous
01/30/2026 17:03
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Got in
Anonymous
01/30/2026 17:01
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
UVA is out
Anonymous
01/30/2026 16:45
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
No, those numbers are very real for the actual students who got in. That’s what they got. You want to argue that those figure would be diluted if the test optional kids had supplied their tests …. But we don’t know that because most likely those kids would never have gotten in under test-required. With UVA receiving 90,000 applications this calendar year, they will receive even more in 2027 should they elect to go test required. Of those, there will be plenty of top scoring kids for UVA to pick from. I sincerely doubt the numbers are going to dip. Especially wit only 6,000 in the class, 90,000 applications, and a push back to meritocracy
UVA’s first year class is around 3,900 not 6,000.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 16:26
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
No, those numbers are very real for the actual students who got in. That’s what they got. You want to argue that those figure would be diluted if the test optional kids had supplied their tests …. But we don’t know that because most likely those kids would never have gotten in under test-required. With UVA receiving 90,000 applications this calendar year, they will receive even more in 2027 should they elect to go test required. Of those, there will be plenty of top scoring kids for UVA to pick from. I sincerely doubt the numbers are going to dip. Especially wit only 6,000 in the class, 90,000 applications, and a push back to meritocracy
The scores are inflated. With less than half of admits submitting SAT scores, today’s SAT numbers are going to skew high. When UVA was test-required (2020 CDS), the range was lower because it reflected nearly the whole class. If testing became required again, I’d expect the median to come back down because the pool would be broader.
2020 Scores
25th Percentile - 1330
75th Percentile - 1490
https://ira.virginia.edu/data-analytics/cds/2020-2021
No, that's your presumed view for now. PP is correct. With 90,000+ applications expected in the future and a limited number of seats, those seats will be filled by top stats kids. In the meantime, those ARE the stats that unhooked top NOVA kids from having a realistic shot of getting in, one of whom was my kid.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 16:24
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:I have to admit, last year at this time when I had a high school junior, I remember rolling my eyes hard at the obsession with Dean J. Now that I have a senior who has applied, I’ve been tuning into her Thursday sessions and I do find her quite charming.
She’s great!
- mom of 2nd year that really loves uva
Anonymous
01/30/2026 16:21
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Mom with an APS senior here, and we were told course selection is extremely important. No DE classes if AP is offered. AP English and History are a must. No non rigorous classes such as business. So yes, all the things said above plus specific course rigor.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 16:16
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
No, those numbers are very real for the actual students who got in. That’s what they got. You want to argue that those figure would be diluted if the test optional kids had supplied their tests …. But we don’t know that because most likely those kids would never have gotten in under test-required. With UVA receiving 90,000 applications this calendar year, they will receive even more in 2027 should they elect to go test required. Of those, there will be plenty of top scoring kids for UVA to pick from. I sincerely doubt the numbers are going to dip. Especially wit only 6,000 in the class, 90,000 applications, and a push back to meritocracy
The scores are inflated. With less than half of admits submitting SAT scores, today’s SAT numbers are going to skew high. When UVA was test-required (2020 CDS), the range was lower because it reflected nearly the whole class. If testing became required again, I’d expect the median to come back down because the pool would be broader.
2020 Scores
25th Percentile - 1330
75th Percentile - 1490
https://ira.virginia.edu/data-analytics/cds/2020-2021
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:56
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Our private, top 10% and 1460+ is essentially guaranteed for EA UVA, unless they have weak rigor which is hard to do and still have that GPA. The next 10% (cum laude second group) is only guaranteed if they have the course rigor UVA wants. The counselor will tell students off record that certain dots did not have the rigor that uva wants.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:54
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
No, those numbers are very real for the actual students who got in. That’s what they got. You want to argue that those figure would be diluted if the test optional kids had supplied their tests …. But we don’t know that because most likely those kids would never have gotten in under test-required. With UVA receiving 90,000 applications this calendar year, they will receive even more in 2027 should they elect to go test required. Of those, there will be plenty of top scoring kids for UVA to pick from. I sincerely doubt the numbers are going to dip. Especially wit only 6,000 in the class, 90,000 applications, and a push back to meritocracy
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:50
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
\Anonymous wrote:northern VA public, kids school's scatter plot shows that weighted GPA of 4.55 ish with 1480 sat for EA gets the kid in.
Good luck to all ... my kid had to withdraw so will never know.
Our scattergram from our very large mediocre FCPS public shows almost the same, GPA above 4.5 *and* SAT @1480 is guaranteed.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:46
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
In the chart, is that weighted or unweighted GPA?
Weighted
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:43
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
In the chart, is that weighted or unweighted GPA?
It's clearly weighted, no such thing as a >4.0W
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:40
Subject: UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Weighted.
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:37
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.
In the chart, is that weighted or unweighted GPA?
Anonymous
01/30/2026 15:35
Subject: Re:UVA Early Action this Friday Jan, 30, 2026
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Expecting a rejection as well. In state not over 4.4 gpa. He has good rigor but 4.36 gpa
Same. In state, 4.38, lots of rigor. High test score though, but I don’t think UVA cares about test scores at all. I will report back.
Why on earth would you say that?
If you've listened to their presentations, they always say that rigor and grades across all four years is more important than the tests.
No, Dean J does not say that. She says rigor AND grades AND test scores AND ECs, etc are important. Otherwise how do you explain a 35ACT at the 75th percentile and a 34 at the median?
Yep. Listen to what they do, and not what they say.
If scores didn’t matter they would be test blind.
Correct. SCHEV doesn’t lie. They want to see a 35 ACT and/or a 1510 SAT. Dean J has to make test optional noises until UVA decides to return to testing, which the Board is considering for fall 2027.
Remember also that she’s said the same about grades. It’s all marketing. She wants your kid to apply. She knows you want to hear these statements and rely upon them.
Where do you get 1510? The median is 1470 per most recent CDS.
Right here. SCHEV. The 75th percentile, which is where the kids of most parents reading here need to hit to get into UVA. https://research.schev.edu/rdPage.aspx?enrollment&rdReport=Enrollment.B10_FreshmanProfile
1/3 of the enrolled class is test optional. The numbers are inflated.