UVA out Friday night
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
4.38 1440 SAT CS Engineering male (top or commonly known as one of top HS) , not 1st gen waitlisted at uva & vt should have done ED 🤷🏻♀️ |
Anonymous
Wow that’s surprising. Sounds super qualified but maybe no more spots left? |
Anonymous
Reading comprehension not your strong suit? It was a response to the multiple pearl clutching parents on this thread who are SHOCKED and FURIOUS that their high stat kid, in a sea of equally high stat kids, didn't get into the school they wanted. How could that be when they were an EAGLE SCOUT and had a SUMMER JOB? 
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Anonymous
Are you angry you don’t have pearls? What is with all the venom? Look, it has been a tough 2 Covid years for everyone - but especially for kids. And kids in the DMV were stuck at home due to the poor decision making of the opera that be. And guess what? It is hurting their apps. Overinflated grades and resulting pumped up GPAS aren’t impressing elite schools when they have applicants that have the same stats and were actually given an education. So back off, take your “all caps” button off and have some compassion for the kids who are dealing with rejection. |
Anonymous
+1. It's been a hard year. I don't appreciate those who didn't go through it who come on this forum and yell "entitlement" "shock" "furious". No parent is saying that anywhere on these college threads. |
Anonymous
Just depends on the high school. UVA takes the top 10% of the class (exceptions for hooks). So at our public, a 4.3 puts you at about the top 30% and sadly, a 1440 is just above average here. It’s crazy. ED for sure. |
Anonymous
That was the stat used pre-covid. I thinkit's more like top 6% now. |
Anonymous
Are you implying that applicants from the DMV are somehow disadvantaged because schools in the area went virtual during the pandemic? And that colleges are discounting grades from high schools that were virtual versus in-person, which would mean they're researching which high schools were virtual and for how long? If so, that's laughably inaccurate. |
Anonymous
+1 Most of the school systems in Virginia—at least the ones in the major metro areas—were completely virtual for the same period of time. |
Anonymous
| 19% acceptance rate. Higher than I thought it would be. |
Anonymous
One can't compare public to private. The public school applicants in Virginia are pre-screened by their public high school counselors and directed to the best fit schools in the Commonwealth. The counselors write letters for these schools and check the "most rigorous" box (yes it still exists). A B student is not going to get the support of their counselor to apply to UVA. The counselor might say "fine" to the parents who want to apply to a private slac like Swarthmore but if the parents and child suggest a university that is not feasible for the student, the counselor is supposed to direct them to suitable places to apply. The counselor has the vast resources of Naviance and SCHEV to show the parents that their kid doesn't have a change. So the applicant pool to UVA is self-selecting. Those applying know they need a 4.47-4.52 and a 35 ACT. We were told by the counslor our child was not a candidate for UVA. She wasn't. So we applied to Virginia schools that made sense for her. |
Anonymous
Sadly, that's a little low for UVA, especially for engineering, and especially if unhooked. The 75th percentile of students who enrolled last fall had a 4.52, a 35 and a 1520. The median has a 4.39, 34, 1460, so your son is below the median mark of current students. |
Anonymous
| I assume those VT stats are final GPAs which tend to be higher than the gpa at time of application so PP’s kid is probably not below the line. |