UVA Early Action

[Anonymous]

I am so proud to have two kids who got into and went to UVA. I had a third who turned down W&M for a large merit scholarship to a highly ranked liberal arts college. The college application process worked out very well for our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so proud to have two kids who got into and went to UVA. I had a third who turned down W&M for a large merit scholarship to a highly ranked liberal arts college. The college application process worked out very well for our family.

Nice!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any student that you know of who had 4.45 as post first semester senior year who didn't get into UVA?

yes

higher and 1590 and highly competitive paid internships and yada yada and deferred. Shocked.

Private school? I’ve noticed rejections is private school students with high stats and strong ECs.

If your child is at a public school, it makes no sense unless they took really easy classes or missed something in the application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any student that you know of who had 4.45 as post first semester senior year who didn't get into UVA?

yes

higher and 1590 and highly competitive paid internships and yada yada and deferred. Shocked.

Private school? I’ve noticed rejections is private school students with high stats and strong ECs.

If your child is at a public school, it makes no sense unless they took really easy classes or missed something in the application.

My son's at a public HS, talked to a bunch of friends today and everyone rejected or deferred, including full IB Diploma students with 1500+ SATs. Maybe they had crappy essays and rec's but it does seem like a particularly brutal year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any student that you know of who had 4.45 as post first semester senior year who didn't get into UVA?

yes

higher and 1590 and highly competitive paid internships and yada yada and deferred. Shocked.

Private school? I’ve noticed rejections is private school students with high stats and strong ECs.

If your child is at a public school, it makes no sense unless they took really easy classes or missed something in the application.

or perhaps the college counselor didn’t check off the “most rigorous” box.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where does this leave RD applicants? UVA blog consistently states it doesn’t matter if you apply EA or RD. However, now there are 20,000 kids competing for 300 spots.

48,000 - 32,000 between ED/EA = 16,000 RD

I imagine they lose many to other schools’ ED and ED2.

You forgot about the deferred applicants from ED and EA who will get a second shot in the RD round. There are 8000 deferred applicants. For another file review, these students have to file a form. If half the deferred students elect a review, that’s 4000 more applicants in the RD round, in addition to the 16,000 RD applicants, or 20,000 total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does this leave RD applicants? UVA blog consistently states it doesn’t matter if you apply EA or RD. However, now there are 20,000 kids competing for 300 spots.

48,000 - 32,000 between ED/EA = 16,000 RD

I imagine they lose many to other schools’ ED and ED2.

You forgot about the deferred applicants from ED and EA who will get a second shot in the RD round. There are 8000 deferred applicants. For another file review, these students have to file a form. If half the deferred students elect a review, that’s 4000 more applicants in the RD round, in addition to the 16,000 RD applicants, or 20,000 total.

Wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any student that you know of who had 4.45 as post first semester senior year who didn't get into UVA?

yes

higher and 1590 and highly competitive paid internships and yada yada and deferred. Shocked.

Private school? I’ve noticed rejections is private school students with high stats and strong ECs.

If your child is at a public school, it makes no sense unless they took really easy classes or missed something in the application.

No, public. And no, 15 AP and post AP (and not the easy APs).
Others in this thread have mentioned similar candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does this leave RD applicants? UVA blog consistently states it doesn’t matter if you apply EA or RD. However, now there are 20,000 kids competing for 300 spots.

48,000 - 32,000 between ED/EA = 16,000 RD

I imagine they lose many to other schools’ ED and ED2.

You forgot about the deferred applicants from ED and EA who will get a second shot in the RD round. There are 8000 deferred applicants. For another file review, these students have to file a form. If half the deferred students elect a review, that’s 4000 more applicants in the RD round, in addition to the 16,000 RD applicants, or 20,000 total.

Wow

And is it correct to guess that UVA is looking to fill about 300 spots from these 20,000 RD/deferred applications” So will likely only admit about 800 kids to account for yield?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does this leave RD applicants? UVA blog consistently states it doesn’t matter if you apply EA or RD. However, now there are 20,000 kids competing for 300 spots.

48,000 - 32,000 between ED/EA = 16,000 RD

I imagine they lose many to other schools’ ED and ED2.

You forgot about the deferred applicants from ED and EA who will get a second shot in the RD round. There are 8000 deferred applicants. For another file review, these students have to file a form. If half the deferred students elect a review, emit that’s 4000 more applicants in the RD round, in addition to the 16,000 RD applicants, or 20,000 total.

Wow

And is it correct to guess that UVA is looking to fill about 300 spots from these 20,000 RD/deferred applications” So will likely only admit about 800 kids to account for yield?

Will it seriously be a 4% admit rate for the RD round?

[Anonymous]

15 AP and post AP (and not the easy APs)

Wow, that's a tough HS experience. All work and no fun.

[Anonymous]

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15 AP and post AP (and not the easy APs)

Wow, that's a tough HS experience. All work and no fun.

What is post AP?

Also, that’s crazy! There’s 7 classes a year, so that’s roughly every single class junior and senior year were AP and plaza few more in the years before that! Wow- I hope your kid gets in somewhere worthy of all that work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any student that you know of who had 4.45 as post first semester senior year who didn't get into UVA?

yes

higher and 1590 and highly competitive paid internships and yada yada and deferred. Shocked.

Yield protection?

I'm hoping you're right, but also deferred ED from Ivy and DC is shaken and now has to wait two months. Not that hundreds/thousands aren't in the same boat.

If it’s any consolation, go look at the stats being posted for deferral and rejection on College Confidential. There are some 4.7s with spectacular test scores and ECs who didn’t make the cut

[Anonymous]

TJ kid got deferred as well. SAT in the high 1500’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ kid got deferred as well. SAT in the high 1500’s.

I think what this and other stories of high-star deferments show is stats-obsessed posters truly don’t understand the admission criteria. Not that I claim to, but UVA is obviously most interested in trying to put together a cohort of kids that bring different things. Just because you have perfect or near perfect test scores and sky-high GPA doesn’t mean you have something to offer.

I do think essays and recommendations make a huge difference. Especially in a year like this.