UVA admits only.

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Does he have APs in all core classes or just in science/math? Your post is unclear and that’s a big difference.

All core classes.

including world language? UVA consuders WL a core subject

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Anonymous wrote:Please describe hooked.

Having alumni parents?

Not a hook for UVA. They don’t have legacy preference

Oh they totally do! Ask me how my kid knows (5th gen UVA)

This (2024) is the first season without legacy preference. Your kid may have received it but it's no more.

I guess we will see won't we. I have an 10th grader with their eyes on UVA.

Youngkin signed a bill into effect in early March 2024 forbidding ALL VA public schools from looking at Legacy. UVA immediately dropped it.

last section from UVA

https://www.whro.org/education-news/2024-11-01/virginia-colleges-say-ban-on-legacy-preference-isnt-impacting-admissions

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been a while, but I think the point is still valid. I had two kids attend UVA. They were both very good students in high school, but they didn’t tear the place up either grade wise or SAT wise. The second student was below the 25th percentile on UVA’s SAT range and not only had no hooks - she probably had things going against her. She was a cute blond upper middle class girl from an affluent NOVA suburb and public high school.

Dean J has been around forever and even back then she and UVA admissions more generally made clear that grades and course selection are more important than test scores. In our experience that was true.

Even a few years back isn't helpful. Everything changed in college admissions during covid. My kid who got in to UVA 8 years ago would not get in today based upon SCHEV results.

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Anonymous wrote:Please describe hooked.

Having alumni parents?

Not a hook for UVA. They don’t have legacy preference

UVA still has legacy, there is an optional essay instead of a checkbox.

They do not have legacy admissions preferences at any public Virginia college: https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/the-end-of-legacy-admissions-at-uva/

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Does he have APs in all core classes or just in science/math? Your post is unclear and that’s a big difference.

All core classes.

including world language? UVA consuders WL a core subject

Mo he stopped after 3 years of a foreign language; so a minus point one I assume now.

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Anonymous wrote:People get in without mid 1500s

hooked

No. Before TO, the 75th was 1490. It will go back to that instantly if they go back to test required as many think they will in January. We have a friend who is there now and had a 1490 and submitted it. Unhooked.

No it won't because before Test Optional UVA received only 25,000 applications a year. Many parents who lost jobs and/or finances were gutted started looking seriously at state tmscgools. Today UVA receives 60,000 applications and the statistics and ECs are amazing. Same with the international applicants who do not apply TO. State schools are going to continue to look
more and more attractive as colleges pass $95k a year (USC). That means more competition from top students who used to go to Ivies and top SLACs

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I didn't realize foreign language was a core.

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Anonymous wrote:People get in without mid 1500s

hooked

No. Before TO, the 75th was 1490. It will go back to that instantly if they go back to test required as many think they will in January. We have a friend who is there now and had a 1490 and submitted it. Unhooked.

No it won't because before Test Optional UVA received only 25,000 applications a year. Many parents who lost jobs and/or finances were gutted started looking seriously at state tmscgools. Today UVA receives 60,000 applications and the statistics and ECs are amazing. Same with the international applicants who do not apply TO. State schools are going to continue to look
more and more attractive as colleges pass $95k a year (USC). That means more competition from top students who used to go to Ivies and top SLACs

I don’t think that’s right. They went test optional in Covid. That’s just 4 years ago.

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Pp. I just googled. They got 41,000 applications in 2019.

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Anonymous wrote:People get in without mid 1500s

hooked

No. Before TO, the 75th was 1490. It will go back to that instantly if they go back to test required as many think they will in January. We have a friend who is there now and had a 1490 and submitted it. Unhooked.

No it won't because before Test Optional UVA received only 25,000 applications a year. Many parents who lost jobs and/or finances were gutted started looking seriously at state tmscgools. Today UVA receives 60,000 applications and the statistics and ECs are amazing. Same with the international applicants who do not apply TO. State schools are going to continue to look
more and more attractive as colleges pass $95k a year (USC). That means more competition from top students who used to go to Ivies and top SLACs

The number of applicants will drop because people applying TO because they have SAT scores in the 1300s will not apply. The reason for the huge application numbers is because kids think they have a chance with their grade inflated 4.0 GPAs if they don’t have to submit the pesky 1300 SAT.

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Exactly. So many of these kids have no business applying

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Wish we had more college choices in this state.

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Does he have APs in all core classes or just in science/math? Your post is unclear and that’s a big difference.

All core classes.

including world language? UVA consuders WL a core subject

Mo he stopped after 3 years of a foreign language; so a minus point one I assume now.

This will rile folks up but kids do get in without AP foreign language, one being our kid last year (engineering school).

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Are most admits captain/ leader of something? Is that a UVA admissions trait?

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Anonymous wrote:Wish we had more college choices in this state.

You do. Virginia has a number of excellent choices.