UVA Decisions Out Tonight

[Anonymous]

There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

[Anonymous]

Do kids ever actually get offers from the wait list or is it actually a polite denial?

[Anonymous]

Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

You're overinvested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

[Anonymous]

I know of four kids that got in off the waitlist last year - 2 from a large public and 2 others from different privates (but all in my neighborhood) so it does happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

You're overinvested.[/c

Why so judgey? If you don't have anything to contribute, don't post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know of four kids that got in off the waitlist last year - 2 from a large public and 2 others from different privates (but all in my neighborhood) so it does happen.

Do you recall if they got offers before the May 1 commit date?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

You're overinvested.

No, a good parent. AT least I know what my kids are doing on their cellphones do you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:very large fcps high school : 25 got in to UVA EA, only 5 offered admission RD last night. Most others waitlisted... a few denials.

so we're talking about a school senior class of 500-600 kids and only 30 got into Uva? (Actually, that's pretty consistent with what I know of our large, relatively high SES, FCPS high school).

That's about right for Langley and McLean, sadly. And those 23-30 are the same kids who get into Ivies and other great schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP- Definitely--she was practically dancing after a tour there.

My DS loved Tech when we toured. But because of the ED block, he never even wound up applying there for engineering. He applied and got into much more highly ranked schools for aerospace engineering on EA. But if you had asked him a year ago, he would have said he was going to Tech.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way anyone has comprehensive information about an entire high school's decisions the morning after the kids found out.

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

You're overinvested.

No, a good parent. AT least I know what my kids are doing on their cellphones do you?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know of four kids that got in off the waitlist last year - 2 from a large public and 2 others from different privates (but all in my neighborhood) so it does happen.

Do you recall if they got offers before the May 1 commit date?

I do not know exactly when they found out but it was def in May and before graduation/when school let out. I also know that the either the kids or the guidance counselors followed up with admissions and let them know they really wanted to attend. Good luck to your DC!