Access UVa survey results are organized by academic year:

2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005

2006-2007

AccessUVa Report of Results: Year Three (2007)
Supplement to the 2007 AccessUVa Report of Results: Financial Literacy Surveys

Financial Management Education Survey Fall 2006 and Fall 2007
In fall 2006, a financial management survey was administered to a sample of students who will receive training on budgeting, credit cards and interpretation of credit reports by the Office of Student Financial Services as well as a random sample who will not receive any training. The objective will be to determine the financial management skills and knowledge of both groups as well as providing Students Financial Services with feedback in view of developing a larger scale training program for incoming Pell Grant recipients.A survey, with minor changes, was administered to a sample of Pell Grant recipients recieving the training and not receiving the training in fall 2007.

Admissions Turndowns Survey 2007 and Newly Admitted Students 2007
These surveys, conducted in summer 2007, asked questions of those applicants to the University who turned down or accepted an offer of admission for the 2007-08 academic year. For turndowns, we inquired about the schools they plan to attend and their experiences with the Admissions and Financial Aid offices. For the Newly Admitted students we asked about their experiences with the schools that were the closest competitors to UVa. These surveys were designed to be very similar in order to develop a model predicting which students are more likely to decide to attend UVa.

2005-2006

AccessUVa Report of Results: Year Two (2006)

Undergraduate Financial Literacy Survey 2006
In spring 2006, a financial literacy survey was administered to first- and fourth-year students. The questionnaire asked about the students’ knowledge and behavior regarding their personal finances and was part of a study to assess the financial management education component of AccessUVa. This survey will provide the baseline assessment of students' financial management education as part of the longitudinal study.

Admissions Turndowns Survey 2006
This survey, conducted in summer 2006, asked questions of those applicants to the University who turned down an offer of admission for the 2006-07 academic year. We inquired about the schools they plan to attend and their experiences with the Admissions and Financial Aid offices, and resources students use to collect information about colleges. It was possible to compare answers to these questions with those of the 2005 survey.

2004-2005

AccessUVa Report of Results: Year One (2005)

Undergraduate Financial Aid Survey 2005
In the winter of 2005, the first part of the ten-year study was begun. All first- and fourth-year high-need students (for 2004-05 high-need was less than or equal to 150% of the poverty level) and a sample of first-year and fourth-year need-based financial aid recipients were invited to participate in the study. First-year study participants are part of a four-year panel study and will repeat the surveys in spring 2008—what should be their fourth years. The purpose of the panel study is to gather baseline data and assess how high-need students are doing in their first year at UVa. The locally-developed instrument was administered in spring 2005 to those students who accepted the invitation to participate in the panel study.

National Survey of Student Engagement 2005
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which is administered by Indiana University, is widely used nationally to measure not what students think but what they actually do in college, that is, whether or not they participate in the programs and activities which are provided by the University for their learning and personal development. NSSE supplements the local instrument on financial aid by demonstrating how engaged the students are in academic and extracurricular activities and provinding another comparison group: students not on need-based financial aid.

Undergraduate Newly Admitted Students Survey 2005
In addition to the locally developed financial aid survey and NSSE, newly admitted students were surveyed. Respondents were asked about other institutions that offered or denied admission, the amount and type of financial support offered as well as the reasons to attend UVa.

Undergraduate Admission Turn Downs Survey 2005
The central purpose of that survey was to ascertain the reasons that students turn down the University's offer of admission, and to discover where these students are oing and why. This year we added a number of questions about finances, scholarships, and financial aid.