UVA Early Action Notification

Applying to College
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<p>Does anyone out there know why UVA waits until January 31st to return early action decisions? I may be wrong, but I thought early action was meant to prevent students from having to apply to several universities. Most all universities have a deadline of January 15th or earlier for their regular decision. So, in the case of UVA, early action applicants still must send in apps to other schools. Does UVA wait until they receive all of the regular decision applications and perform some type of quick analysis to help them determine how to respond to the early decision applications? There has to be some reason along those lines as to why they wait as they could easily return the early action decision earlier if they wanted to. Just curious because it's a pain for students! And expensive.</p>