UVA acceptances and socioeconomic status

[Anonymous]

I have heard there is a link here. They are trying to take the non-privileged kids? But truly only anecdotal evidence. Anyone heard about this?

[Anonymous]

I don't doubt it. The wealth of out-of-state kids in the first year class is absurd. My child went to a 55k private so is no stranger to being around money but has never seen wealth like there is at UVA among many OOS kids. They had a professor comment on it, unprovoked during office hours because the professor feels like it's really increased in recent years.

[Anonymous]

10+ admits to UVA at my DC’s private school, so I don’t think they are necessarily targeting non-privileged kids.

[Anonymous]

Define “non-privileged.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard there is a link here. They are trying to take the non-privileged kids? But truly only anecdotal evidence. Anyone heard about this?

This might be the case with some outstanding low income in-state students.

[Anonymous]

This will be fun. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will be fun. Sigh.

Especially since fully half the posters will read only the title and assume the thread is about how UVA admissions are unfairly biased toward the rich, while the other half will read the OP and assume the thread is about how UVA admissions are unfairly biased toward the poor.

[Anonymous]

Uva is need blind

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[Anonymous]

My take, based of nothing more than a 3 year unhealthy obsession watching college admissions trends as we helped our 25 and 26 grad-

MAGA made diversity a bad word. Unlike corporations who dropped DEI like a hot potatoe and probably never really cared about it either way, colleges actually do prefer a more diverse class. So socioeconomic diversity was the quick front runner to replace ethnic diversity. They thought they’d get a similar result but in a MAGA compliant way.

But the application drop didn’t happen. And they’re at risk of losing funding for any number of reasons, so full pay students are suddenly most attractive.

Good intentions but no actual changes this cycle.

I’m talking about it all colleges, not just UVA. Maybe next cycle socioeconomic diversity will be the hot thing. People said a rural zip code would be the hook so maybe that will come true.

[Anonymous]

They made, what, 10k offers last year and will probably do a similar amount this year? With that large of a number, none of the anecdotes will tell you anything useful. You just have to wait for more data.

[Anonymous]

USNWR has made % Pell Grant eligible a ranking criteria, so many schools are trying to enroll more Pell Grant eligible students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uva is need blind

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+1. And one of the few publics that is! Take THAT, OP!

[Anonymous]

Well we had them fooled, we went to an IB school but we're full pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My take, based of nothing more than a 3 year unhealthy obsession watching college admissions trends as we helped our 25 and 26 grad-

MAGA made diversity a bad word. Unlike corporations who dropped DEI like a hot potatoe and probably never really cared about it either way, colleges actually do prefer a more diverse class. So socioeconomic diversity was the quick front runner to replace ethnic diversity. They thought they’d get a similar result but in a MAGA compliant way.

But the application drop didn’t happen. And they’re at risk of losing funding for any number of reasons, so full pay students are suddenly most attractive.

Good intentions but no actual changes this cycle.

I’m talking about it all colleges, not just UVA. Maybe next cycle socioeconomic diversity will be the hot thing. People said a rural zip code would be the hook so maybe that will come true.

Geographic diversity has been a thing forever. At least since the 80s.

And first gen has also been a huge "hook" in recent years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't doubt it. The wealth of out-of-state kids in the first year class is absurd. My child went to a 55k private so is no stranger to being around money but has never seen wealth like there is at UVA among many OOS kids. They had a professor comment on it, unprovoked during office hours because the professor feels like it's really increased in recent years.

Hearing the same about private colleges. I think wealthy has just increased so much in the past few years. A nice, $2m house is now $3m or more. People feel poor making $500,000 a year.