UVA early decision

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Anonymous wrote:Also deferred. Now regretting EDing to UVA because there's just not a real bump to EDing at UVA, not like other schools. UVA is pretty honest about that. I have heard Dean J say that there is no admissions advantage to EDing to UVA but all the chatter/gossip was telling us otherwise. Now we're feeling like we lost that ED advantage and just wasted our ED.


Every school says something like this: if you are sure that you want to be at ABC (or that ABC is your first choice) and you’re happy with your record, ED might be right for you.

Schools don’t really tout ED as an admissions boost. That notion comes from those who observe the data. However, the data can be deceiving because it doesn’t breakout athletes, legacies, etc.
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Anonymous wrote:Also deferred. Now regretting EDing to UVA because there's just not a real bump to EDing at UVA, not like other schools. UVA is pretty honest about that. I have heard Dean J say that there is no admissions advantage to EDing to UVA but all the chatter/gossip was telling us otherwise. Now we're feeling like we lost that ED advantage and just wasted our ED.


Sorry your kid was deferred! Last year there was an advantage to ED (for in state I think it was 39% accepted ED V about 30% EA). This year the in-state acceptance rate is lower. It will be interesting to see if that is the case for EA as well.
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


Can you expand on this? Not sure I'm understanding your point but it sounds interesting.
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Anonymous wrote:Though UVA has not said it, I wonder if they have decided to cap ED admissions at 25% of the class. For the past two years, 1000 kids have been their number, despite increased applications. Capping the number of ED admissions may help with perceptions of admission fairness, especially since it’s a public university. Then again, W&M accepts a much larger portion of their class from two ED rounds, and they are a public. Again, UVA hasn’t noted a cap, but I find it odd that the number admitted this year was the same as last year, despite 800 more ED applications. Thoughts?


Maybe W&M feels the greater need to leverage the ED early match process to secure a large portion of their class - that without it they may not get a similar level of student. Guessing UVA feels greater confidence to leave the class more open - that they will get the level of students they need and can consider other factors and values.
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Anonymous wrote:Can someone from Fairfax county explain what a 4.4 weighted translates too? Is it a 4.0 unweighted and how many APs to get to a 4.4?

NP. Through 11th grade DS has a 3.975/4.496. Two A- 6 APs, 1 post-AP


I don’t understand this. My DS took 6 APs through 11th grade and has never gotten below an A in any class. And yet, his weighted GPA is a 4.22. What is a post AP?


I wonder if the difference is in how many honors or regular courses a high school offers outside of AP. My DS had 8 APs and 1 DE by 11th. 1 B+ (AP Physics), 2 A- (regular Latin) and the rest were As. He took 8 classes/year and honors wherever possible. But foreign language didn’t offer honors before AP, and accelerated math kids were in non-honors courses before AP Calc in 11th. Electives (2-3/year) were also unweighted. His GPA was a 4.24 at the end of junior year.


The colleges understand how GPA is calculated at different schools and they recalculate them so they are comparable.....


That impacts the bump for honors and AP, but in doesn’t impact what types of classes a school offers. So in my example, I suspect a lot less honors classes are offered at the lower level compared to (for example) FCPS, which leads to a lower GPA.


They don’t recalculate. They judge the GPA within the context of the particular high school. This is why the stats being thrown around here are so useless. They only apply to your high school.
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Anonymous wrote:UVA loves to see first semester senior year grades. I think that’s why they defer so many applicants.


EA comes out before first semester grades are due and UVA’s lowest acceptance rate occurs during RD. I think another post is correct that the have an inside cap on ED. But they seem to take a decent chunk of the class during EA.


Last year, ED was 11% of the total offers and 63% were EA.
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Anonymous wrote:Can someone from Fairfax county explain what a 4.4 weighted translates too? Is it a 4.0 unweighted and how many APs to get to a 4.4?

NP. Through 11th grade DS has a 3.975/4.496. Two A- 6 APs, 1 post-AP


I don’t understand this. My DS took 6 APs through 11th grade and has never gotten below an A in any class. And yet, his weighted GPA is a 4.22. What is a post AP?


PP. as some others had mentioned, if classes weren't AP, he tried to take Honors which accounts for .5 bump. HS "honors" math began in 7th grade so I'm sure that helped. Post AP is computer science after AP CS-A which had +1 weight.
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


Yep. I know a 3.5 kid from a top DC private accepted today.
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


Yep. I know a 3.5 kid from a top DC private accepted today.


How do you know a kid’s GPA if it’s not your kid? That’s odd and obsessive.
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


Yep. I know a 3.5 kid from a top DC private accepted today.


How do you know a kid’s GPA if it’s not your kid? That’s odd and obsessive.
. You’re odd and obsessive
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


Yep. I know a 3.5 kid from a top DC private accepted today.


How do you know a kid’s GPA if it’s not your kid? That’s odd and obsessive.
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I mean, it is.
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


What’s a CCO?
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


What’s a CCO?

probably college counseling office
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Anonymous wrote:CCO told my kid that UVA generally has a GPA cut-off and it varies school by school and year by year. So, while they don’t know where the cut-off is ahead of time, CCO generally sees it in the data once the dust has settled.


What’s a CCO?


College counselor? Not original poster.
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Anonymous wrote:Can someone from Fairfax county explain what a 4.4 weighted translates too? Is it a 4.0 unweighted and how many APs to get to a 4.4?

NP. Through 11th grade DS has a 3.975/4.496. Two A- 6 APs, 1 post-AP


I don’t understand this. My DS took 6 APs through 11th grade and has never gotten below an A in any class. And yet, his weighted GPA is a 4.22. What is a post AP?


PP. as some others had mentioned, if classes weren't AP, he tried to take Honors which accounts for .5 bump. HS "honors" math began in 7th grade so I'm sure that helped. Post AP is computer science after AP CS-A which had +1 weight.


That’s a big help! I am the PP with 4.24. My kids has 6 high school math credit, including Calc AB and B/C. But 7th - 10th the school did not offer honors for kids in accelerated math. So Pre-Calc in 10th was non-honors, etc.
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