| UVA EA in-state acceptance rate is around 30% ... if your kid is not in the top 30% of their high school ... ain't getting in. weighted 4.32 is kind of low. |
That doesn’t seem accurate. You’re extrapolating incorrectly. |
https://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2025/01/2025-uva-early-action-admission.html Early Action Offers Overall offers: 6,746 Total VA offers: 2,788 (25% offer rate) Total OOS offers: 3,958 (13% offer rate) |
DP here. Seems accurate to me. If your kid isn’t in the top 30% at TJ or top 10-15% at another VA high school, you are not getting into UVA. If you are not fcps and different system, I’m sure that 4.3 gpa would be higher but at TJ, that seems low for a top school. |
UVA’s Class of 2029 acceptance rate is more like 23% in-state; 12.5% out With nearly 65k applications |
| Why are people arguing about the acceptance rate when someone posted the one directly from UVA? |
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Pulled from their blog:
Early Decision VA: 29% accepted OOS: 21% accepted Early Action VA: 25% OOS: 13% Regular Decision VA: 11% OOS: 9% Defer acceptance rate: 3% Overall VA acceptance rate: 23% Overall OOS acceptance rate: 12.5% |
I thought it was more that the 4.3 gpa at TJ is not high enough. |
If you are under a 4.5 wGPA at TJ, you are not getting into SEAS. Maybe political science or something in Arts & Sciences, but not SEAS. The average SAT score at TJ is about 1540, and for TJ kids going to UVA it is 1550. |
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Here are the stats from Naviance for TJ (and it does not break it down by major, gender, etc. - just the average stats for admission): UVA: wGPA: 4.48 SAT 1553 VaTech: wGPA: 4.36 SAT 1537 |
Because of UVA updates, that’s why. |
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My DC from TJ did not get into UVA, VT, or W&M, rejected or wait listed by all, only got into GMU, with 1540 SAT and wGPA was 4, low for admission standards for UVA, but VT and W&M too? c'mon. It's a scam, we paid out of state because he didn't want to go to GMU, although it is a fine school. Anyhow, fast forward 4 years, he got job offers from multiple FAANG companies. TJ kids will do fine no matter where they go, especially if they have the drive.
OP, so stop sweating if they don't get in then they don't that's it, you can worry about it, but if they are driven they will figure a way. I told mine you can do graduate studies at a T10 or Ivy eventually just don't think of undergrad status at this point. Mine has become a good scholar now, and will most likely to Graduate studies from a prestigious program at some point. Undergrad status is for parents to brag usually, that's all. |
The newer stats are in after this latest round of admissions. UVA 4.52 and 1552 Tech 4.35 and 1526 |
This. UVA wants multiple years of foreign languages, including AP, and lots of English and history classes, again including AP. TJ kids are very much stem focused and some do not have the foreign language and humanities classes that UVA expects. |