UVA Early Action

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Anonymous wrote:All along, it has been noted in real talk tj that any one who gets a 4.3 and above makes it to UVA. Has this been true always? Just curious to know how many kids got admission to UVA last year?

It was at least largely true according to my observation.

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My TJ DC with a 4.4, 1550+, very good EC’s got deferred. DC’s friend with a 4.31 got deferred as well.

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Anonymous wrote:My TJ DC with a 4.4, 1550+, very good EC’s got deferred. DC’s friend with a 4.31 got deferred as well.

This year has been really tough.
IMO it all started with top colleges for not requiring standardized scores, leading to a huge increase in the number of applications and randomness of the process. Top students who typically get into top colleges got deferred and needed to apply to/ stay in the applications for more schools to be safe. This effect propagates down to the UVA level and below.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on record that it doesn't take into account demonstrated interest, doesn't practice yield protection, and doesn't favor one gender over another in admissions. You can either believe the school, or don't. If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, fine.

UVA can't practice yield protection because it is a comparatively small office in a public school. The UVA Admissions Office doesn't have the resources that a private university has to throw at marketing and admissions.

What you just said makes no sense. Do you know what yield protection is?

Yes. And it makes sense. You have to have a strategy and more readers to practice yield protection. It takes more readers and more staff. Unlike Princeton, UVA doesn't have that.

Please. Yield protection is not that hard. You waitlist or defer applicants with stats higher than your average admit on the assumption that they'll get into another more selective school and go there. UVA's admissions office is plenty sophisticated and capable of doing that. That's what I meant when I asked if you knew what yield protection actually was. All you're doing is talking out your a$$.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on record that it doesn't take into account demonstrated interest, doesn't practice yield protection, and doesn't favor one gender over another in admissions. You can either believe the school, or don't. If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, fine.

UVA can't practice yield protection because it is a comparatively small office in a public school. The UVA Admissions Office doesn't have the resources that a private university has to throw at marketing and admissions.

What you just said makes no sense. Do you know what yield protection is?

Yes. And it makes sense. You have to have a strategy and more readers to practice yield protection. It takes more readers and more staff. Unlike Princeton, UVA doesn't have that.

+1. The Admissions Office also has to start keeping records of who attends tours (currently UVA doesn't - the program is just too large). You also need interviews which takes staff time. It's just too time consuming. ARticles have said the added cost to practice yield protection just isn't worth it for the colleges that don't need to, and especially the publics which try to keep costs down.

That's not yield protection. That's tracking demonstrated interest. Which of course UVA could do to at least some degree if it wanted to. The bottom line is UVA doesn't have to do any of that -- and they don't.

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Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

Same here. Had the stats for Ivies but no hooks and understanding actual statistics, lol, chose not to go for ‘em.

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Anonymous wrote:PP with a ED admission, what was the TJ Gpa if you don't mind sharing ?

Not TJ, and her gpa is 4.2

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

ED works, for the university. Takes otherwise qualified top students away from superior schools and forces them to attend.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

Same here. Had the stats for Ivies but no hooks and understanding actual statistics, lol, chose not to go for ‘em.

It’s a shame. You’ll never know if you were good enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

Same here. Had the stats for Ivies but no hooks and understanding actual statistics, lol, chose not to go for ‘em.

It’s a shame. You’ll never know if you were good enough.

It’s fine. Being “good enough” and getting in are separate things. Very happy with UVA .

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is on record that it doesn't take into account demonstrated interest, doesn't practice yield protection, and doesn't favor one gender over another in admissions. You can either believe the school, or don't. If you want to be a conspiracy theorist, fine.

UVA can't practice yield protection because it is a comparatively small office in a public school. The UVA Admissions Office doesn't have the resources that a private university has to throw at marketing and admissions.

What you just said makes no sense. Do you know what yield protection is?

Yes. And it makes sense. You have to have a strategy and more readers to practice yield protection. It takes more readers and more staff. Unlike Princeton, UVA doesn't have that.

+1. The Admissions Office also has to start keeping records of who attends tours (currently UVA doesn't - the program is just too large). You also need interviews which takes staff time. It's just too time consuming. ARticles have said the added cost to practice yield protection just isn't worth it for the colleges that don't need to, and especially the publics which try to keep costs down.

That's not yield protection. That's tracking demonstrated interest. Which of course UVA could do to at least some degree if it wanted to. The bottom line is UVA doesn't have to do any of that -- and they don't.

But that's what a university has to do if it is going to engage in yield protection. You can't take the student's word that they are going to show up - so you have to invest resources to ascertain demonstrated interest.

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If the university is going to eliminate more qualified applicants to yield protect, why even bother calling it EA in the first place?

Why don't they all call it RD and have it in the fall, put a lot of people on the waitlist and allow plenty of time for people to get pulled off waitlists in multiple rounds?

Seems like that would increase the caliber of the applicant pool.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty darn glad we did ED to UVA! I guess that’s the lesson for next year!

Same here. Had the stats for Ivies but no hooks and understanding actual statistics, lol, chose not to go for ‘em.

It’s a shame. You’ll never know if you were good enough.

It’s fine. Being “good enough” and getting in are separate things. Very happy with UVA .

I agree, my son could’ve gotten in somewhere else maybe better, but we wouldn’t be able to afford it. He’s happy and so are we, always time for those other schools for graduate degrees.

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All I want to know is the percentage of acceptances who chose not to submit test scores.