anyone waiting for UVA and William & Mary?

[Anonymous]

RD rejected after deferral EA. Kids with similar stats in. In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller. In at top 40 US News National school. Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RD rejected after deferral EA. Kids with similar stats in. In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller. In at top 40 US News National school. Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.

You have to assume that instate, only students with top stats even bother applying. They talk a lot about essays and recommendations being part of their deciding factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RD rejected after deferral EA. Kids with similar stats in. In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller. In at top 40 US News National school. Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.

You have to assume that instate, only students with top stats even bother applying. They talk a lot about essays and recommendations being part of their deciding factors.

Kid was top stats top ECs. Others with similar stats got in. Were also double legacy.

[Anonymous]

Others were double legacy or your child was a double legacy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RD rejected after deferral EA. Kids with similar stats in. In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller. In at top 40 US News National school. Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.

You have to assume that instate, only students with top stats even bother applying. They talk a lot about essays and recommendations being part of their deciding factors.

Kid was top stats top ECs. Others with similar stats got in. Were also double legacy.

I'm sorry. I know a lot of legacy families (one a triple legacy family who had given big bucks) with super high stat kids that didn't get in. The problem is that there are only so many spaces at UVA, as you know. The new President is ramping up for first-generation kids (I don't agree with that, even though I was personally one when it was not trending) and has already announced an increase in number of acceptances to first generation students for next fall. SAme with low-income. Same with BlueRidge Scholarships. Same with Questbridge, athletes, URM, specially talented musicians, students from all 53 states and territories, 71 countries, and those kids whose dad's can give $1M so whose files are marked marked "development cases". The list goes on, as you know. I don't think it's right but it identity politics at its worst in our society. I have a friend who is very bitter about both her kids not getting in. They are no longer signing over big checks to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore. Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore. Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.

Doubt they’ll care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore. Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.

Doubt they’ll care.

Yes, UVA wants the money. There was a piece in WaPo a few years back about legacies that give big bucks. But, instead. those slots are going to OOS, international, URM. Questbridge, low-income, Blue Ridge Scholars, athletes, first-generation, the odd musician etc. When those slots are given to non-Virginians, how does that make any sense to Virginian legacies (I am not - I went to Harvard, where legacies count for even more) and who have paid in taxes for 30 years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore. Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.

Doubt they’ll care.

Yes, UVA wants the money. There was a piece in WaPo a few years back about legacies that give big bucks. But, instead. those slots are going to OOS, international, URM. Questbridge, low-income, Blue Ridge Scholars, athletes, first-generation, the odd musician etc. When those slots are given to non-Virginians, how does that make any sense to Virginian legacies (I am not - I went to Harvard, where legacies count for even more) and who have paid in taxes for 30 years?

OOS on average pays more than the cost of attendance, so UVA would like to have more OOS as well for financial reasons. It actually subsidizes in-state from that perspective. But there would be an uproar if more spots went to OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore. Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.

Doubt they’ll care.

Yes, UVA wants the money. There was a piece in WaPo a few years back about legacies that give big bucks. But, instead. those slots are going to OOS, international, URM. Questbridge, low-income, Blue Ridge Scholars, athletes, first-generation, the odd musician etc. When those slots are given to non-Virginians, how does that make any sense to Virginian legacies (I am not - I went to Harvard, where legacies count for even more) and who have paid in taxes for 30 years?

What needs to happen is for Virginians to demand more seats and for the state to fund it. The school could easily grow by 200 or so for now, with funding for housing and the like. It would not diminish prestige or elite standing at all.

[Anonymous]

For rejected folks, unless it's changed, isn't there a guaranteed way of getting into UVA from NVCC? The criteria are far from difficult.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RD rejected after deferral EA. Kids with similar stats in. In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller. In at top 40 US News National school. Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.

You have to assume that instate, only students with top stats even bother applying. They talk a lot about essays and recommendations being part of their deciding factors.

Kid was top stats top ECs. Others with similar stats got in. Were also double legacy.

I'm sorry. I know a lot of legacy families (one a triple legacy family who had given big bucks) with super high stat kids that didn't get in. The problem is that there are only so many spaces at UVA, as you know. The new President is ramping up for first-generation kids (I don't agree with that, even though I was personally one when it was not trending) and has already announced an increase in number of acceptances to first generation students for next fall. SAme with low-income. Same with BlueRidge Scholarships. Same with Questbridge, athletes, URM, specially talented musicians, students from all 53 states and territories, 71 countries, and those kids whose dad's can give $1M so whose files are marked marked "development cases". The list goes on, as you know. I don't think it's right but it identity politics at its worst in our society. I have a friend who is very bitter about both her kids not getting in. They are no longer signing over big checks to UVA.

Seems like he's all in for identitarian politics. But hey, that's the president the Board wanted. Gonna be tough for UVA legacies of popped collared dads and sun dressed moms with degrees from the late 80s and early 90s

[Anonymous]

What are Blue Ridge Scholars?

[Anonymous]

Of the two, which is more politically correct?

I know UVA had that notorious rape hoax a couple of years ago. And W&M ran off a president several years ago after he decided that the crucifix on the altar of the college chapel needed to be covered, so as not to offend non-believers. Sheesh!

It's a tough choice.