UVA EA out Friday!

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like so many 4.0 kids are getting in! Did your kids take less rigorous courses - for example Cal AB instead of BC, or AP Psych or APES instead of AP Chem? How did they maintain a 4.0 through four years of schooling? My sophomore would love to land at UVA but it seems impossible

Nope. Calc BC junior year. Differential equations. AP Chemistry etc etc.
Maintained it by working their butt off. Maybe retook one quiz the entire time.

My son is a 1st year at UVA now and he was the same. 4.0 UW. He was in Arlington and they didn’t allow retakes. He worked his butt off, and probably even studied too much at times. Calc BC as a junior and Multivariable Calculus senior year.

Strange. That’s what APS was known for…As. They just put out a new policy last week to reign in re-test/re-takes..and starting now you can’t re-test and get anything higher than an 80%. But anyone can re-take/re-year to a B. Which HS?

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

It’s exactly why we moved our kids to private from APS for high school. Zero regrets.

And we’re glad to see you go

NP. Do you honestly think the retakes are a good thing? The lack of deadlines, etc?

If you are taking your kids out of public school and paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for private school for those reasons, then you’re just an idiot. Sorry.

Getting an actual strong education versus unsubstantiated As? Being held to standards? Having fantastic, dedicated teachers and small class sizes? Yes. Fantastic choice. We can afford it.

They are very well-prepared.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like so many 4.0 kids are getting in! Did your kids take less rigorous courses - for example Cal AB instead of BC, or AP Psych or APES instead of AP Chem? How did they maintain a 4.0 through four years of schooling? My sophomore would love to land at UVA but it seems impossible

Nope. Calc BC junior year. Differential equations. AP Chemistry etc etc.
Maintained it by working their butt off. Maybe retook one quiz the entire time.

My son is a 1st year at UVA now and he was the same. 4.0 UW. He was in Arlington and they didn’t allow retakes. He worked his butt off, and probably even studied too much at times. Calc BC as a junior and Multivariable Calculus senior year.

Strange. That’s what APS was known for…As. They just put out a new policy last week to reign in re-test/re-takes..and starting now you can’t re-test and get anything higher than an 80%. But anyone can re-take/re-year to a B. Which HS?

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

It’s exactly why we moved our kids to private from APS for high school. Zero regrets.

You like the sound of this:

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

And I’m the idiot? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like so many 4.0 kids are getting in! Did your kids take less rigorous courses - for example Cal AB instead of BC, or AP Psych or APES instead of AP Chem? How did they maintain a 4.0 through four years of schooling? My sophomore would love to land at UVA but it seems impossible

Nope. Calc BC junior year. Differential equations. AP Chemistry etc etc.
Maintained it by working their butt off. Maybe retook one quiz the entire time.

My son is a 1st year at UVA now and he was the same. 4.0 UW. He was in Arlington and they didn’t allow retakes. He worked his butt off, and probably even studied too much at times. Calc BC as a junior and Multivariable Calculus senior year.

Strange. That’s what APS was known for…As. They just put out a new policy last week to reign in re-test/re-takes..and starting now you can’t re-test and get anything higher than an 80%. But anyone can re-take/re-year to a B. Which HS?

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

It’s exactly why we moved our kids to private from APS for high school. Zero regrets.

And we’re glad to see you go

NP. Do you honestly think the retakes are a good thing? The lack of deadlines, etc?

If you are taking your kids out of public school and paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for private school for those reasons, then you’re just an idiot. Sorry.

Getting an actual strong education versus unsubstantiated As? Being held to standards? Having fantastic, dedicated teachers and small class sizes? Yes. Fantastic choice. We can afford it.

They are very well-prepared.

NP but major eyeroll. Glad you can afford it. Those of us who can’t are thankful that there are still fantastic teachers in public schools, and yes, there are still standards. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Accepted, posting for stat purposes and to give some hope to others

FCPS weighted 4.3 GPA, 3.9 unweighted GPA (after junior year)
11 APs, 5 test scores of 5, 1 test score of 4
770 Verbal / 730 Math
Asian
JV sports only
part-time job
No other extracurriculars
Intended major is political science/international relations

Deferred at ED at an Ivy (legacy), deferred EA at Michigan, USC, admit at Pitt

We never expected him to get into UVA with those stats, so he also applied what he considered to be "UVA-like" schools such as W&M, Wake Forest and Davidson. Of course he would go to UVA instead of the "like" schools in all likelihood. Only the Ivy would be preferable (not identifying it here to maintain privacy).

Happy news after getting 3 deferrals in a row these past 6 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted, posting for stat purposes and to give some hope to others

FCPS weighted 4.3 GPA, 3.9 unweighted GPA (after junior year)
11 APs, 5 test scores of 5, 1 test score of 4
770 Verbal / 730 Math
Asian
JV sports only
part-time job
No other extracurriculars
Intended major is political science/international relations

Deferred at ED at an Ivy (legacy), deferred EA at Michigan, USC, admit at Pitt

We never expected him to get into UVA with those stats, so he also applied what he considered to be "UVA-like" schools such as W&M, Wake Forest and Davidson. Of course he would go to UVA instead of the "like" schools in all likelihood. Only the Ivy would be preferable (not identifying it here to maintain privacy).

Happy news after getting 3 deferrals in a row these past 6 weeks.

All those stats tell me os my kid shouldn't bother applying to UVA. Good thing she likes JMU.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted, posting for stat purposes and to give some hope to others

FCPS weighted 4.3 GPA, 3.9 unweighted GPA (after junior year)
11 APs, 5 test scores of 5, 1 test score of 4
770 Verbal / 730 Math
Asian
JV sports only
part-time job
No other extracurriculars
Intended major is political science/international relations

Deferred at ED at an Ivy (legacy), deferred EA at Michigan, USC, admit at Pitt

We never expected him to get into UVA with those stats, so he also applied what he considered to be "UVA-like" schools such as W&M, Wake Forest and Davidson. Of course he would go to UVA instead of the "like" schools in all likelihood. Only the Ivy would be preferable (not identifying it here to maintain privacy).

Happy news after getting 3 deferrals in a row these past 6 weeks.

Private. 35 ACT composite (not superscore), 5s on all AP exams, 4.0uw, athlete, lots of community service.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like so many 4.0 kids are getting in! Did your kids take less rigorous courses - for example Cal AB instead of BC, or AP Psych or APES instead of AP Chem? How did they maintain a 4.0 through four years of schooling? My sophomore would love to land at UVA but it seems impossible

Nope. Calc BC junior year. Differential equations. AP Chemistry etc etc.
Maintained it by working their butt off. Maybe retook one quiz the entire time.

My son is a 1st year at UVA now and he was the same. 4.0 UW. He was in Arlington and they didn’t allow retakes. He worked his butt off, and probably even studied too much at times. Calc BC as a junior and Multivariable Calculus senior year.

Strange. That’s what APS was known for…As. They just put out a new policy last week to reign in re-test/re-takes..and starting now you can’t re-test and get anything higher than an 80%. But anyone can re-take/re-year to a B. Which HS?

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

It’s exactly why we moved our kids to private from APS for high school. Zero regrets.

And we’re glad to see you go

NP. Do you honestly think the retakes are a good thing? The lack of deadlines, etc?

If you are taking your kids out of public school and paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for private school for those reasons, then you’re just an idiot. Sorry.

Getting an actual strong education versus unsubstantiated As? Being held to standards? Having fantastic, dedicated teachers and small class sizes? Yes. Fantastic choice. We can afford it.

They are very well-prepared.

DP. That’s all great, a wonderful experience for them, but they will get to college and find that the kids from public are also well-prepared. And after college, it won’t matter at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like so many 4.0 kids are getting in! Did your kids take less rigorous courses - for example Cal AB instead of BC, or AP Psych or APES instead of AP Chem? How did they maintain a 4.0 through four years of schooling? My sophomore would love to land at UVA but it seems impossible

Nope. Calc BC junior year. Differential equations. AP Chemistry etc etc.
Maintained it by working their butt off. Maybe retook one quiz the entire time.

My son is a 1st year at UVA now and he was the same. 4.0 UW. He was in Arlington and they didn’t allow retakes. He worked his butt off, and probably even studied too much at times. Calc BC as a junior and Multivariable Calculus senior year.

Strange. That’s what APS was known for…As. They just put out a new policy last week to reign in re-test/re-takes..and starting now you can’t re-test and get anything higher than an 80%. But anyone can re-take/re-year to a B. Which HS?

Yes, I don't get "worked butt off with no retakes at APS." My daughter and friends are there and they all have unweighted 4.0s (or close to it), take things over all the time and can barely read and write. It's one of my great regrets that we did not move her for high school.

I don't know what to tell you. My kid and his friends in APS are taking 10-12 AP courses and getting 4s and 5s on them, SATs 1500+. I don't think that if APS was as watered down as you are claiming that these kids would be performing like this. They are being admitted into very competitive schools (like UVA, Michigan, UMD) for things like engineering and CS.

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Rejected. 1510 SAT, 3.9 UW with all rigor, upper level math and sciences. OOS private. Good ECs, captain 2 varsity sports, social justice work. I am surprised not even a waitlist.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted, posting for stat purposes and to give some hope to others

FCPS weighted 4.3 GPA, 3.9 unweighted GPA (after junior year)
11 APs, 5 test scores of 5, 1 test score of 4
770 Verbal / 730 Math
Asian
JV sports only
part-time job
No other extracurriculars
Intended major is political science/international relations

Deferred at ED at an Ivy (legacy), deferred EA at Michigan, USC, admit at Pitt

We never expected him to get into UVA with those stats, so he also applied what he considered to be "UVA-like" schools such as W&M, Wake Forest and Davidson. Of course he would go to UVA instead of the "like" schools in all likelihood. Only the Ivy would be preferable (not identifying it here to maintain privacy).

Happy news after getting 3 deferrals in a row these past 6 weeks.

Have you heard from Davidson? My kid is going next year. Wanted something different. Davidson is much smaller than UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ Yeah I wonder how there have been so many 4.0s at public schools. It’s difficult to fathom. /s

At my DC’s school, a few minor errors on the midterm or finals would lead to a lower score (20% of grade) and it could drop your grade from an A to A- so easily. How can these kids, so many, not make ONE single error in 4 years? NONE in 4 years? Is this because schools allow re-testing? Or are midterms not 20% of grades at these schools?

This could be my son’s school. He’s gotten a B 1 quarter and an even an A- one semester or two, but he always pulled it up to an A over the 4 quarters. His transcript shows no Bs since only semester and Final grades are reported—but there is an A- semester grade shown. The mid-term final exam grades (20%) aren’t shown. He got a C on his religion midterm Freshmen year . His UW is a 4.0.

How do you have a C on a midterm and then an A (>94%?) in the class? That is some wacky math.

lol what about the 1s, 2s, and 3s on AP exams and As in the class

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Is a kid’s parent went to UVA for grad school, would the kid have an advantage?

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Anonymous wrote:Is a kid’s parent went to UVA for grad school, would the kid have an advantage?

Not really. They only count undergraduate degrees.

But it will not matter from next year because Virginia will ban legacy admission for all public universities including UVA

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/virginia-inches-closer-to-ending-legacy-admissions/#:~:text=(WRIC)%20%E2%80%93%20Virginia%20is%20expected,General%20Assembly%20on%20unanimous%20votes.

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Anonymous wrote:Is a kid’s parent went to UVA for grad school, would the kid have an advantage?

Not really. They only count undergraduate degrees.

But it will not matter from next year because Virginia will ban legacy admission for all public universities including UVA

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/virginia-inches-closer-to-ending-legacy-admissions/#:~:text=(WRIC)%20%E2%80%93%20Virginia%20is%20expected,General%20Assembly%20on%20unanimous%20votes.

UVA did away with the legacy box, as did VT last year (but an applicant can still raise the impact of being a legacy in a supplemental essay). https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/01/uva-legacy-admissions-college-application/

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Anonymous wrote:Is a kid’s parent went to UVA for grad school, would the kid have an advantage?

Not really. They only count undergraduate degrees.

But it will not matter from next year because Virginia will ban legacy admission for all public universities including UVA

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/virginia-inches-closer-to-ending-legacy-admissions/#:~:text=(WRIC)%20%E2%80%93%20Virginia%20is%20expected,General%20Assembly%20on%20unanimous%20votes.

UVA did away with the legacy box, as did VT last year (but an applicant can still raise the impact of being a legacy in a supplemental essay). https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/01/uva-legacy-admissions-college-application/

But not next year. The legacy essay will go away too.