UVA ED out

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Anonymous wrote:DD accepted. In state. 4.45 weighted gpa, 33 ACT, 14 AP classes, will have earned 13 varsity letters upon HS graduation, part time job, president of engineering club, Girl Scout Gold Award. I’m now a triple Hoo mom!

14 Varsity letters? How is that possible 3 seasons in 4 years of high school = 12 Varsity letters max. Clearly goes to public school if gpa is weighted.

13 varsity letters. One season she was able to participate in 2 varsity sports bc their schedules did not conflict. She is an amazing kid and her amount of energy both exhausts and awes me.

How is this possible? Don't varsity spots meet 5 days per week after school until 5:30/6?

I have two varsity athletes (since freshman year) and they've never not had mandatory M-F practice after school. Even cross country. You don't come to practice, you don't run that Saturday (and even stricter practice requirements for the ball sports).

[Anonymous]

Rather than arguing over varsity letters, anyone else get in? Seems kinda quiet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD accepted. In state. 4.45 weighted gpa, 33 ACT, 14 AP classes, will have earned 13 varsity letters upon HS graduation, part time job, president of engineering club, Girl Scout Gold Award. I’m now a triple Hoo mom!

14 Varsity letters? How is that possible 3 seasons in 4 years of high school = 12 Varsity letters max. Clearly goes to public school if gpa is weighted.

13 varsity letters. One season she was able to participate in 2 varsity sports bc their schedules did not conflict. She is an amazing kid and her amount of energy both exhausts and awes me.

How is this possible? Don't varsity spots meet 5 days per week after school until 5:30/6?

I have two varsity athletes (since freshman year) and they've never not had mandatory M-F practice after school. Even cross country. You don't come to practice, you don't run that Saturday (and even stricter practice requirements for the ball sports).

Very school specific. Ours has a few sports that only meet two days a week, and of course the applications ask how much time you spend on each activity your list, so that will be apparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rather than arguing over varsity letters, anyone else get in? Seems kinda quiet.

Yes. Two classmates of DC (in-state public HS). Don’t know stats beyond the fact that they are both incredibly hard-working and accomplished kids.

[Anonymous]

DS did. 1500 SAT. 4.57gpa. Lots of AP. EC very solid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD accepted. In state. 4.45 weighted gpa, 33 ACT, 14 AP classes, will have earned 13 varsity letters upon HS graduation, part time job, president of engineering club, Girl Scout Gold Award. I’m now a triple Hoo mom!

14 Varsity letters? How is that possible 3 seasons in 4 years of high school = 12 Varsity letters max. Clearly goes to public school if gpa is weighted.

13 varsity letters. One season she was able to participate in 2 varsity sports bc their schedules did not conflict. She is an amazing kid and her amount of energy both exhausts and awes me.

How is this possible? Don't varsity spots meet 5 days per week after school until 5:30/6?

I have two varsity athletes (since freshman year) and they've never not had mandatory M-F practice after school. Even cross country. You don't come to practice, you don't run that Saturday (and even stricter practice requirements for the ball sports).

+1

[Anonymous]

Son got in. UVA School of Engineering. 4.54 weighted, 3.96 UW GPA, 35 ACT, 1540 SAT. 11 AP classes, 2 varsity letters in lacrosse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hoo boy, at DD's very good private school, 13 kids applied ED, only 1 got in. 1 rejected, DD and the others all deferred.

My kids are younger, so this is new to me. But how does everyone know about each other? Do the kids all share this immediately and openly? Is it supportive/helpful or does it actually add to the stress or cause rivalry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:hoo boy, at DD's very good private school, 13 kids applied ED, only 1 got in. 1 rejected, DD and the others all deferred.

What kind of grades?

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to those that got in.

For the others, there is a good college waiting.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hoo boy, at DD's very good private school, 13 kids applied ED, only 1 got in. 1 rejected, DD and the others all deferred.[/quote]

My kids are younger, so this is new to me. But how does everyone know about each other? Do the kids all share this immediately and openly? Is it supportive/helpful or does it actually add to the stress or cause rivalry?[/quote]

I have a high school senior who knows all about his friends where they did ED but not everything about all other colleges. He knew within 1 hr who got in and who's deferred. Kids do share SAT/ACT not the GPA but they have any idea as they share general grades. At least my kid and his friends do not get stressed out what others are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:If people are willing to share stats that would be great. Thanks!

It really doesn’t matter unless the stats are an outlier. High stats kid= crapshoot. Especially in NoVa. It would be more interesting if there was a large population of people posting throughout Virginia

Not really, 4.4+ and 1500+ = in

Yes but there will be people who come on with similar who DID NOT get in.

Not really, if your weighted GPA is above 4.4, you took a rigorous courseload, and your SAT is above 1440 it's not really a crapshoot at UVA. Look closely at the GPAs of denied--often it's 4.3 or <

Let’s not forget the in state va out of date issue. Different standards.

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Not that different. It’s a tough school to get in to. End of story.

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For what it’s worth, GPAs for better students are inflated this admission cycle because of two years of pandemic grade inflation. Sure, there were kids who struggled with remote learning, but for the better students, the pandemic was an easy route to straight A’s.

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Anonymous wrote:Not that different. It’s a tough school to get in to. End of story.

36% in state vs. 19% out of state. So about twice as hard out of state.

This is why you shouldn’t come to DCUM for actual facts.

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/out-of-state-public-university/