UVA deferral but UNC and Mich and UGA accepted

[Anonymous]

Your kid got into a better school than UVA. UVA makes no sense. They took kids with lower stats from our school and then defer for EA and those deferrals end up at higher ranked schools. I don’t believe they don’t yield protect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make this make sense.

UVA hates VA privates is the explanation we are primarily hearing.

What is the weighted GPA and major?

[Anonymous]

UVA doesn’t yield protect. I’ve never heard before that it dislikes VA privates (there aren’t that many) but only top 20% in the class is a problem, especially if others in OP’s kid’s class applied. Generally, UVA is looking at top
6%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA doesn’t yield protect. I’ve never heard before that it dislikes VA privates (there aren’t that many) but only top 20% in the class is a problem, especially if others in OP’s kid’s class applied. Generally, UVA is looking at top
6%

I heard it was 4.93%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA holds an extremely high bar at DMV privates. At the private my kid graduated from last year every kid admitted to UVA EA or RD was also admitted to an Ivy and most of these were HYP.

Multiple kids were admitted to an Ivy and deferred/waitlisted by UVA.

To me this means UVA has lost sight of their mission; they are not truly attainable for the vast majority of instate applicants anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA isn’t really known for yield protection.
We are in state.
It does not make sense.
1540
top 20 percent of class.
[b]Statistically, the odds of getting Michigan and UGA and UNC were much slimmer then getting UVA.

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No. Michigan is less selective at 15%- 23%. UVA just dropped to 9% in its recent EA round. I know many Virginians who went to Michigan when they didn’t get into UVA. One even drove back to Virginia when accepted to after Michigan classes had started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make this make sense.

UVA hates VA privates is the explanation we are primarily hearing.

A question OP;
Are you going to be sending updated achievements? Or is the LOCi form and mid year grades will be it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA isn’t really known for yield protection.
We are in state.
It does not make sense.
1540
top 20 percent of class.
Statistically, the odds of getting Michigan and UGA and UNC were much slimmer then getting UVA.

EA or ED?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA holds an extremely high bar at DMV privates. At the private my kid graduated from last year every kid admitted to UVA EA or RD was also admitted to an Ivy and most of these were HYP.

Multiple kids were admitted to an Ivy and deferred/waitlisted by UVA.

That's crystal clear yield protection.

Clear as mud.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA holds an extremely high bar at DMV privates. At the private my kid graduated from last year every kid admitted to UVA EA or RD was also admitted to an Ivy and most of these were HYP.

Multiple kids were admitted to an Ivy and deferred/waitlisted by UVA.

To me this means UVA has lost sight of their mission; they are not truly attainable for the vast majority of instate applicants anymore.

Mission? Or is it because there are more butts than seats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid got into a better school than UVA. UVA makes no sense. They took kids with lower stats from our school and then defer for EA and those deferrals end up at higher ranked schools. I don’t believe they don’t yield protect.

UVA OOS ~ 9%
UNC OOS ~ 9% (but for state mandate, UNC's OOS would be much higher effectively)
UGA OOS ~ 20%
UM OOS ~ 17%

No. UVA is much more selective than them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA holds an extremely high bar at DMV privates. At the private my kid graduated from last year every kid admitted to UVA EA or RD was also admitted to an Ivy and most of these were HYP.

Multiple kids were admitted to an Ivy and deferred/waitlisted by UVA.

UVA doesn’t yield protect. It’s just an extremely hard acceptance from NoVA. My DC and their friends accepted to HYPSM were also accepted to UVA. But there are others who were accepted to ivies (including HYP) that were waitlisted or rejected at UVA. UVA is a tough admit from NoVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid got into a better school than UVA. UVA makes no sense. They took kids with lower stats from our school and then defer for EA and those deferrals end up at higher ranked schools. I don’t believe they don’t yield protect.

You’ll find this at nearly all of the T25 schools. Too many applicants for too few spots. With holistic admissions there will always be kids with lower stats accepted and others with higher stats denied/WL but in at higher ranked schools.

[Anonymous]

Colleges look for different things.

You’re competing within their pool of applicants that year and you just can’t know what the other applications looked like.

[Anonymous]

Oy it isn't yield protection. UVA does not yield protect.

But it does take a lot of out-of-state students (a much higher percentage than comparable state schools). And it does feel a responsibility to limit how many students from Northern Virginia so that it can take some from the Rest of Virginia.

And it, of course, limits how many it takes from a particular high school in NOVA. These are not quotas or hard limits but they are a reality and it hurts TJ more than any other school, then probably the most high performing HS in Virginia (the McLeans and Langleys) and then of course the private high schools.

All of those schools have far more applicants who would likely be accepted if they were from Roanoke than those who actually get in.

In other words, it is not yield protection, it is that your peers are very strong. It feels unfair but that is the reality in a lot of schools.