The University of Virginia has released Early Decision notifications for the Class of 2026. In all, 1,098 students earned admission through the binding Early Decision program out of a pool of 3,500 applicants. By our arithmetic, that’s an Early Decision admission rate of 31.37%. 15 students also earned admission through …
The University of Virginia, one of our nation’s top public universities, has received a record number of both Early Decision and Early Action applications to its Class of 2026. The school, which offers Early applicants the option of applying under its binding Early Decision policy or its non-binding Early Action …
A recent Wall Street Journal article on Early application numbers across American universities suggests that applications are down this fall. As Maya Goldman and Melissa Korn report for The Wall Street Journal, “Through Nov. 2, the Common Application had nearly 8% fewer first-year applications than in the same period last …
While some of our nation’s most elite universities experienced declines in Early applications for the Class of 2024, the University of Virginia experienced no such decline. Indeed UVA set a record this year — attracting 40,971 applications to the school Thomas Jefferson founded. The previous record? It was set last …
It’s back! The University of Virginia has reinstated an Early Decision policy. As our loyal readers may remember from when we penned our thoughts on the topic back in 2007 (boy have we been writing about highly selective college admissions for a long time!), the University of Virginia dropped its …
