UVA applications incraese

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

Class size should increase, yes.

UVA has already done that. The entering class size can’t be expanded. UVA was built in 1819. It’s landlocked. Instead of purchasing land, UVA has to tear down old dorms and rebuild in the same place. uVA is running out of room to grow.

[Anonymous]

Newsflash: Kids are applying to more schools each year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Newsflash: Kids are applying to more schools each year.

But if more are applying — and accepted — ED then they must withdraw all their other applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

I like our system. Instead of one enormous, mega university, we have a bunch of large ones.

I guess we could pull a North Carolina and call them all UVA with a city after them to make people realize that we have a lot of state universities here?

I’m sure GMU would leap at the chance to be called UVA-Fairfax.

GMU started out as a satellite school of UVA! It would be returning to its roots!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please hire more professors and offer more classes that are actually useful, what’s that massive endowment for

Much of that endowment belongs to units other than the undergraduate programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA continues to gain in prestige, which it’s long already had in droves.

What does this have to do with prestige?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its going to be a rough year

it is always a rough year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

Class size should increase, yes.

UVA has already done that. The entering class size can’t be expanded. UVA was built in 1819. It’s landlocked. Instead of purchasing land, UVA has to tear down old dorms and rebuild in the same place. uVA is running out of room to grow.

Colleges exist all over the state for political and practical reasons. From the political perspective, politicians want some of the state funds flowing into their areas rather than other areas. From the practical perspective, there are many students that can only attend part time or have to live near the college they are attending for other reasons. For this reason, GMU, VCU, and ODU are going to be sizeable institutions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please hire more professors and offer more classes that are actually useful, what’s that massive endowment for

Much of that endowment belongs to units other than the undergraduate programs.

About 30% of the endowment is medical-related without a single undergraduate student. They aren't going to give their money to pay for expanding undergraduate programs. Add in Darden, Law, Athletics, etc., and over 50% of endowment may be graduate only or not related to undergraduate. Then consider that typically about 80% of endowment funds are specified as to purpose by the donor, and there is limited latitude for an institution to use available endowment assets in this way. Beyond that, no public college is going to want to use their discretionary funds to expand enrollment. They would look to the state to provide additional funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny flagship not sure why VA residents tolerate that.

I like our system. Instead of one enormous, mega university, we have a bunch of large ones.

I guess we could pull a North Carolina and call them all UVA with a city after them to make people realize that we have a lot of state universities here?

I’m sure GMU would leap at the chance to be called UVA-Fairfax.

Eh, no thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA continues to gain in prestige, which it’s long already had in droves.

What does this have to do with prestige?

More applications means greater selectivity and higher and higher stats, all of which is reported to USNWR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA continues to gain in prestige, which it’s long already had in droves.

What does this have to do with prestige?

More applications means greater selectivity and higher and higher stats, all of which is reported to USNWR

NP. Increasing apps are not going to increase UVA's prestige compared to other schools. Virtually all selective schools increased in app numbers last year, thanks to test optional policies, and will likely again. US News does count scores in the ranking formula, though that may change due to the test optional issue. US News does not include acceptance rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA continues to gain in prestige, which it’s long already had in droves.

What does this have to do with prestige?

More applications means greater selectivity and higher and higher stats, all of which is reported to USNWR

NP. Increasing apps are not going to increase UVA's prestige compared to other schools. Virtually all selective schools increased in app numbers last year, thanks to test optional policies, and will likely again. US News does count scores in the ranking formula, though that may change due to the test optional issue. US News does not include acceptance rate.

Wrong. There are only four thousand first year slots. Every year the bum Ed of applications has increased resulting in a smaller selectivity percentage. This is reported to the rankings service. Also yield is up compared to other private institutions so you are comparing apples to orange. COViD played an enormous role in this because many families were financially hammered in the market crash of spring 2021. Also many families lost an income whether that was due to firing or layoff or because one parent had to take care of the kids at hime. Suddenly many parents had to reassess their financial situations. This resulted in an increased surge in applications at the in-state schools. Meanwhile, the SLACs continued to increase their prices even passing the $84k mark. So more selectivity and better yield stats translates into higher prestige

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA continues to gain in prestige, which it’s long already had in droves.

What does this have to do with prestige?

More applications means greater selectivity and higher and higher stats, all of which is reported to USNWR

NP. Increasing apps are not going to increase UVA's prestige compared to other schools. Virtually all selective schools increased in app numbers last year, thanks to test optional policies, and will likely again. US News does count scores in the ranking formula, though that may change due to the test optional issue. US News does not include acceptance rate.

Wrong. There are only four thousand first year slots. Every year the bum Ed of applications has increased resulting in a smaller selectivity percentage. This is reported to the rankings service. Also yield is up compared to other private institutions so you are comparing apples to orange. COViD played an enormous role in this because many families were financially hammered in the market crash of spring 2021. Also many families lost an income whether that was due to firing or layoff or because one parent had to take care of the kids at hime. Suddenly many parents had to reassess their financial situations. This resulted in an increased surge in applications at the in-state schools. Meanwhile, the SLACs continued to increase their prices even passing the $84k mark. So more selectivity and better yield stats translates into higher prestige

What do you mean by "selectivity percentage"? (Acceptance rate is not considered by US News.)

[Anonymous]

Google UVA selectivity USNWR. it’s the percentage of applicants who get an offer. I believe it is now 23 percent. USNWR then takes that percentage and assign a category to it. For UVA that is “most selective”.