UVA out tomorrow

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crickets on social media about celebratory UVA postings at dds very large fcps high school. usually have between 40-50 kids accepted- including both EA and RD, depending on the year with @30 attending.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected after being deferred EA. Out of State, 1550 SAT, 4.5 GPA, national and international writing awards, extremely strong everything. I've been accepted to UNC Honors, Miami U (full ride), Rutgers (almost full ride), USC Honors College (full ride), McGill (partial scholarship), U of Toronto (partial scholarship) and received a likely letter from Duke. There's really no telling with these things. I did write my common app essay about leading a protest...something tells me UVA is sick of political agitators! Not sad about UVA per say, but disappointed that I was simply rejected! I'm now 6 for 7, bummer.

Wow. Was that kid humblebragging or what?

No. That’s just called bragging.

One word: yield-protection

+1. Would have been weird to see this in-state, but not OOS.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks a bloodbath, my word.

Did you see the 4.6 GPAs and 34 ACTS rejected or waitlisted? Do you know how hard it is, statistically, to get a 34+ on the ACT. I don't have an applicant this year but I don't think DD who got in two years ago would make it in today.

Hard to guess from Internet-land. At least one of those were OOS, and one a white male which is not exactly a hook.

sorry, meant to say would NOT get in today. DDs GPA was only a 4.05 with one college course and a 34, upped to a 36 on retake. But he did not have the amount of AP courses this year's applicants are listing.

Pretty insane isn't it? Crazy competitive year for applicants unfortunately. What was 75th+ percentile last year, doesn't even get you in the door this year.

Please stop with the disinformation.

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Anonymous wrote:crickets on social media about celebratory UVA postings at dds very large fcps high school. usually have between 40-50 kids accepted- including both EA and RD, depending on the year with @30 attending.

so you're thinking many fewer got in this year?

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That is dd's assumption. She knows quite a few people who applied and were anxiously awaiting the decisions. I'm sure she will find out more today. If she says anything, I will update my post.

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I think that the references to 75th percentile last year refer to the likely scores needed to get into UVA for the Class of 2018 versus 2017. The Common Data Set metrics of 75th percentile ACT, SAT & GPA.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the references to 75th percentile last year refer to the likely scores needed to get into UVA for the Class of 2018 versus 2017. The Common Data Set metrics of 75th percentile ACT, SAT & GPA.

Admitted is vastly different from enrolled. Common data set is enrolled.

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Well, in fairness, you'd expect admitted stats to be skewed even higher than the common data set ... On balance, i would expect the people who barely made it into UVA in the admissions cycle to be more likely to attend UVA, because it may well be the best school they got into. The people at the top of the admissions pool likely have more alternatives and therefore are less likely as a group to choose UVA. Obviously there are some differences because of choosing UVA because of instate tuition and other advantages.

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From http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2018/03/unofficial-admission-statistics-for.html


Total applications: 37,222 (36,779 last year)
Total number of VA apps: 11,338
Total number of OOS apps: 25,884
We use completed applications in our statistics.


Overall offers: 9,849
Total VA offers: 4,303 (38% offer rate)
Total OOS offers: 5,546 (21.4% offer rate)
Schools admit more students than the enrollment goal with yield in mind. Yield is how many students accept an offer of admission.


Testing/Rank (offers only)
Middle 50% SAT score: 1330-1490 (VA) 1420-1530 (OOS)
Middle 50% ACT composite: 30-34 (VA) 33-35 (OOS)
We use scores from each section in our review, but the reports on averages generate totals.



Overall offer rate for the defer group: 16.6%
Students offered spots on the waiting list: 28.6%

The waiting list forms as students opt into it via SIS and we have seen up to HALF decline putting themselves on the list. The waiting list will have ten different segments (in-state and OOS for each of the five academic areas that take first-year students).

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Anonymous wrote:crickets on social media about celebratory UVA postings at dds very large fcps high school. usually have between 40-50 kids accepted- including both EA and RD, depending on the year with @30 attending.

so you're thinking many fewer got in this year?

Yes, I was thinking that was low too, but my DC went to Langley when about 50 or more got in (all 4.0+) but the class was well over 500 then so it was top ten percent.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the references to 75th percentile last year refer to the likely scores needed to get into UVA for the Class of 2018 versus 2017. The Common Data Set metrics of 75th percentile ACT, SAT & GPA.

Admitted is vastly different from enrolled. Common data set is enrolled.

It was still 27% admitted for 2021, 26% for 2022. and 28.9% for class of 2020, which DC is in, so I don't know what you're talking about. http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/university-releases-admission-decisions-for-class-of-2020

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I'm a UVA parent a few years in. What I have noticed change (other than the numbers of applications have surged in three years, as they have everywhere), is that the accepted ACT scores have significantly moved up; the accepted GPAs have increased; the number of AP classes have increased, in accepted applicant statistics. You can see this clearly on College Confidential and in SCHEV. We were thrilled when DC got in but we thought at the time that a 34 ACT was amazing percentage-wise. Now it's becoming an expected score. I don't think DC would get in today - only three years later. DC has had a wonderful experience there BTW so congrats to those who got in and I hope you decide to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s been a good evening here as both DD and my niece were accepted.

DD is 4.55 & 34 ACT.
Niece is 4.0 (unweighted) & 31 ACT.

Big shocker was DD’s friend who was admitted with 4.25 but perfect ACT. He also had 1490 SAT.

Those are some amazing stats. Congrats to your family!

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Anonymous wrote:From http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2018/03/unofficial-admission-statistics-for.html


Total applications: 37,222 (36,779 last year)
Total number of VA apps: 11,338
Total number of OOS apps: 25,884
We use completed applications in our statistics.


Overall offers: 9,849
Total VA offers: 4,303 (38% offer rate)
Total OOS offers: 5,546 (21.4% offer rate)
Schools admit more students than the enrollment goal with yield in mind. Yield is how many students accept an offer of admission.


Testing/Rank (offers only)
Middle 50% SAT score: 1330-1490 (VA) 1420-1530 (OOS)
Middle 50% ACT composite: 30-34 (VA) 33-35 (OOS)
We use scores from each section in our review, but the reports on averages generate totals.



Overall offer rate for the defer group: 16.6%
Students offered spots on the waiting list: 28.6%

The waiting list forms as students opt into it via SIS and we have seen up to HALF decline putting themselves on the list. The waiting list will have ten different segments (in-state and OOS for each of the five academic areas that take first-year students).

So 38% of in state applicants receive an offer and the middle 50% of successful VA applicants have SAT scores 1330-1490

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Anonymous wrote:I think that the references to 75th percentile last year refer to the likely scores needed to get into UVA for the Class of 2018 versus 2017. The Common Data Set metrics of 75th percentile ACT, SAT & GPA.

Admitted is vastly different from enrolled. Common data set is enrolled.

It was still 27% admitted for 2021, 26% for 2022. and 28.9% for class of 2020, which DC is in, so I don't know what you're talking about. http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/university-releases-admission-decisions-for-class-of-2020

I think they're saying that you can't compare the stats for "admitted" students against "enrolled" students. The stats for admitted students are generally higher than for enrolled as kids at the top of the stats have more options.