UVA admissions from NOVA public schools

[Anonymous]

Why do so many posters continue to insist that it’s almost impossible to get into UVA from a NOVA public and throw out ridiculous and easily refutable numbers like “only 10 from our school got in?” Yes it’s a tough admit but the typical NOVA high school gets dozens of applicants in each year.

I wonder if these posters are just telling themselves this because their own kids didn’t get in.

[Anonymous]

Are you really going to do this again? How exhausting.

[Anonymous]

It’s important that we clean up misinformation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s important that we clean up misinformation

Sure, because the things said here are so important. You obviously need better hobbies. This will be another $hitshow thread filled with moronic useless comments in 3...2...1...

[Anonymous]

“ the typical NOVA high school gets dozens of applicants in each year. ” — proof?

[Anonymous]

My kids school had less that 15 acceptances and no I’m not just sore about it because my kid got in. Mid size NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Why do you not believe it OP? Schools value geographic diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you not believe it OP? Schools value geographic diversity.

Let say student A (Langley HS high performance school) and student B (Annandale HS low performance school) with identical GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, same ECs. There is a very good chance that student B will get accepted to UVA while student A will get rejected.

[Anonymous]

In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

[Anonymous]

According to Naviance at my kids' NOVA high school, UVA admits about 50 students per year (range from 45-51 over the past seven years). That holds steady regardless of how many apply. So, while they say they don't have quotas they sure seem to have a quota.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you not believe it OP? Schools value geographic diversity.

Let say student A (Langley HS high performance school) and student B (Annandale HS low performance school) with identical GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, same ECs. There is a very good chance that student B will get accepted to UVA while student A will get rejected.

If Student A attends Annandale, it's less likely they will end up with similar statistics and accomplishments by senior year. That's why parents pay a premium for Langley and pupil place their kids out of Annandale in large numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids school had less that 15 acceptances and no I’m not just sore about it because my kid got in. Mid size NOVA.

No, it didn’t. It got more than that in. Name the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids school had less that 15 acceptances and no I’m not just sore about it because my kid got in. Mid size NOVA.

No, it didn’t. It got more than that in. Name the school.

I have intention of naming it because this is an anonymous board but it’s absolutely true. I don’t care if you believe me and again my kid got in so I don’t care. I can tell you that some kids in the top 5% did not get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ the typical NOVA high school gets dozens of applicants in each year. ” — proof?

Sure, here’s the proof: the official statistics from SCHEV.

For the entering class of 2021, 1320 students from Fairfax County got in. That’s 42 students per public high school. Even assuming that every student attending TJ applied and that everyone of them got in, with TJ taken out of the equation it’s still more than 30 per school. And yes, there are private schools too but still . . . the numbers admitted from Fairfax publics are higher than most posters think and say.

https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you not believe it OP? Schools value geographic diversity.

Let say student A (Langley HS high performance school) and student B (Annandale HS low performance school) with identical GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, same ECs. There is a very good chance that student B will get accepted to UVA while student A will get rejected.

If Student A attends Annandale, it's less likely they will end up with similar statistics and accomplishments by senior year. That's why parents pay a premium for Langley and pupil place their kids out of Annandale in large numbers.

Where are you getting this from? The curriculum is the same across all of the neighborhood high schools. There are plenty of kids at every one of them with lots of APs and high test scores. You’re just being a snob.