UVA EA is out!!!!
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Anonymous
Lessons from college application year 2018-19: 1. “Early” is regular. If you do not apply “early,” that is during the specified “Early” season, AND if you fail to check the “early” box, you will be rejected. 2. Essentially all colleges and universities in the above-average range of admissions competitiveness have developed at least some Yield-Management skill. They recruit so as to increase denominator, they then defer or wait-list so as not to increase numerator. In this was they look more competitive. If you are in the right range and you are not accepted, but you are savvy, you will call them up and ask directly that they admit you. And it happens. These are the two key lessons. |
Anonymous
General rule of thumb is that AP classes are not an appropriate academic choice if your student cannot get a B or higher |
Anonymous
Holy Mother of G-d. 40,000 total (EA and RD) received. 25,098 for EA. 6,550 EA admitted for only 3,750 seats total (where does RD fit in????) and SEVEN THOUSAND DEFERRED ON FRIDAY. http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2019/01/unofficial-uva23-early-action-statistics.html. Middle 50% ACT composite score for OSS of 33-35. My kid doesn't have a chance. |
Anonymous
Or yield protection as noted somewhere else. You reject those likely to reject you. I think UVA does this with TJ. |
Anonymous
They are a good team this year, but a long way to go. And I don't recall winning a national championship making Villanova into Notre Dame or Alabama into Cal. |
Anonymous
Difficult to prove it, but the typical college playbook is to drum up as many applications as possible (even if not qualified), and keep admits as low as as possible while maximizing stats (e.g. accept high standardized test kid from a school that doesn't provide class rank. If kid is in school that provides class rank, make sure they are in top 10%). |
Anonymous
I recall seeing a thread here about Villanova recently. They seem to be riding high. Alabama is a dumb school. |
Anonymous
I thought I read that there was a 43 percent instate offer rate for EA. So...relax a little. |
Anonymous
Probably should have legally established VA residency, no? |
Anonymous
A year ago, my DS was deferred in EA, waitlisted in regular admission and then offered a spot on May 3. |
Anonymous
Sadly this seems very true lately. We have had kids with very little AP's but higher GPA's getting into much better schools than those with more B's than A's and a C here or there in AP's. Which really truly sucks. They are basically telling kids to take it easy, don't challenge yourself and get the easy A. This is NOT what happens in college and kids are so sad/depressed/anxious when they realize that they can't get easy A's in college. And the even bigger irony is most jobs do not give one crap what your GPA was when you graduated. |
Anonymous
Interesting. Did you DS take the spot? I can imagine by May 3 a person might have already moved on an emotionally invested in another school. |
Anonymous
Not sure about that, but a good point in that a very high percentage of applications come from OOS and in-state admit rates are much higher (I think just dipped below 40% for first time in a while last year). There is self-selection in-state, though, so it is a pretty qualified pool, though much smaller than OOS. |
Anonymous
Villanova has a pretty low admission rate, but SAT and class rank are below UVA (and W&M), and well below Notre Dame. It doesn't hurt to win a championship, though. |
Anonymous
Yes, he took the spot. He was very ambivalent about his other options, including the school he initially said yes to. |