The University of Virginia offered admission Friday to 3,187 high school seniors who applied through the university's new "early action" admissions program. Among them were 1,547 in-state students.
The university posted the decisions for all 11,753 of the early applicants on a password-protected website.
U.Va. said the average SAT score of those accepted was 1,413 on a 1,600-point scale, and 2,119 on a 2,400-point scale, up from 1,380 and 2,066 for those offered admission last year.
Officials are evaluating applications of students who applied by the Jan. 1 deadline with decisions due in late March. U.Va.'s total applicant pool is up 18 percent to a record 28,239.
The university expects an incoming class of 3,360 students, with about 2,350 Virginians to maintain the 70 percent to 30 percent ratio of in-state to out-of-state students.
Of the early applicants who did not receive offers, 3,150 had their applications deferred to the regular application cycle.
The early-action program is nonbinding. Those accepted will have until May 1 to decide whether they will attend.
U.Va. discontinued an early-decision program in 2006 that was binding. It was ended amid concerns that it put low-income students at a disadvantage because they were unable to compare schools' financial aid offers.
The College of William and Mary still has binding early-decision admissions. The college received 1,167 early-decision applications, up from 1,076 last year, and accepted 567 of the applicants for fall 2012. Of those, 425 are from Virginia.
W&M also reports record total applications for the Class of 2016. The preliminary count for a class of about 1,470 is 13,500 applications, up from last year's 12,825.
As of Friday, Virginia Commonwealth University had received 14,826 applications for fall, up from 13,088 at this time last year. The final freshman application count for last fall was 14,336.
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