UVA RD

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:15 percent of in state applicants were accepted RD. Only 15 percent IN state.

Out of state: 11 percent.

Very prestigious.

Sadly, that’s not how prestige is determined.

Well, it is to an extent, but a 25% in-state admit rate is not prestigious. As for oos, it is a universal second choice given that kids don’t like paying private school tuition for a state flagship — hence the poor oos yield.

Of course it is. The large majority of in state students applying are at/near the top of the class and only one out of four is getting in. And the rate is that high only because of ED.

DCUM is hllarious. We’ve now gone from “UVA admission is too hard for in state students and needs to expand or reduce OOS numbers to serve the state”
to “UVA is an easy admit.”

Exactly kids who are not in the top 10% of their HS are not wasting time applying. But yeah noting thr crickets on this thread guessing not many got good news last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:15 percent of in state applicants were accepted RD. Only 15 percent IN state.

Out of state: 11 percent.

Very prestigious.

Sadly, that’s not how prestige is determined.

Well, it is to an extent, but a 25% in-state admit rate is not prestigious. As for oos, it is a universal second choice given that kids don’t like paying private school tuition for a state flagship — hence the poor oos yield.

Of course it is. The large majority of in state students applying are at/near the top of the class and only one out of four is getting in. And the rate is that high only because of ED.

DCUM is hllarious. We’ve now gone from “UVA admission is too hard for in state students and needs to expand or reduce OOS numbers to serve the state”
to “UVA is an easy admit.”

Exactly kids who are not in the top 10% of their HS are not wasting time applying. But yeah noting thr crickets on this thread guessing not many got good news last night.

It seems that way, especially since UVA is definitely a school that a lot of people around here would have applied to. Maybe they accepted too many during early decision?

[Anonymous]

Bump. Wow. Nobody on DCUM’s kid got in. Lots of sad folks out there lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bump. Wow. Nobody on DCUM’s kid got in. Lots of sad folks out there lol.

LOL that people are sad?!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bump. Wow. Nobody on DCUM’s kid got in. Lots of sad folks out there lol.

LOL that people are sad?!?

I'm sure that some people are sad, but the mood is so different here when kids do not get into their flagship (UVA) v. in Florida when kids do not get into UF. When the UF decisions came out, there were so many Floridians that had their pitchforks out for the OOS students who got accepted (basically saying that the OOS students were taking their kids spots and that Florida needed to restrict OOS applicants). However, UF only had less than a 10% acceptance rate for OOS (so the numbers were already limited). In northern Virginia, if someone's kid doesn't get into UVA, there is some disappointment (naturally), but the attitude is more like "bummer, but let's move on." Much healthier mindset.

[Anonymous]

FCPS students outside the top of their class don't even apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that this thread is getting no hits.

People on DCUM yap about UVA 24/7.

Crickets when the results come out.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s cool when so many kids get denied. It only adds weight to the prestige of my kids’ degrees. Kids, plural. I have two grads.

[Anonymous]

I see a lot of kids admitted - but mainly from early action and early decision. I have not run across anyone in person that was admitted during regular round (though I'm sure there are some).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s cool when so many kids get denied. It only adds weight to the prestige of my kids’ degrees. Kids, plural. I have two grads.

This is so pathetically funny - and telling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s cool when so many kids get denied. It only adds weight to the prestige of my kids’ degrees. Kids, plural. I have two grads.

This is so pathetically funny - and telling.

Yea at least I’m honest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bump. Wow. Nobody on DCUM’s kid got in. Lots of sad folks out there lol.

LOL that people are sad?!?

I'm sure that some people are sad, but the mood is so different here when kids do not get into their flagship (UVA) v. in Florida when kids do not get into UF. When the UF decisions came out, there were so many Floridians that had their pitchforks out for the OOS students who got accepted (basically saying that the OOS students were taking their kids spots and that Florida needed to restrict OOS applicants). However, UF only had less than a 10% acceptance rate for OOS (so the numbers were already limited). In northern Virginia, if someone's kid doesn't get into UVA, there is some disappointment (naturally), but the attitude is more like "bummer, but let's move on." Much healthier mindset.

Stop trying to make UFL happen . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of kids admitted - but mainly from early action and early decision. I have not run across anyone in person that was admitted during regular round (though I'm sure there are some).

Most kids applied during EA - 64% of applications. Another 8% in ED. UVA has long told applicants to get in early, as RD is used to flll in gaps remaining after ED/EA (geography, URM, FGLI, etc.).

Also, UVA stopped deferring ED and EA applicants to RD, so the number of folks actually waiting for a result in RD is actually much smaller than previous years.

All of this helps explains the lack of activity in this thread (and at College Confidential, too).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS students outside the top of their class don't even apply.

DS is at FCPS (Mclean/Langley), and got in during EA (3.9 UW/4.3 W/1500 SAT).

Core group of friends with similar GPAs and SATs but much, much better ECs (yearbook/newspaper editors, state-level awards) were waitlisted in RD on Friday night.

So yes, there is a fault line in the Naviance scattergram data between admit and deny for UVA, which discourages those below the line from applying, and even for those above the fault line, it is still a crapshoot. DS was right on that line and got in, but just as easily could have been denied/waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS students outside the top of their class don't even apply.

The same is true for any other school district.