UVA RD is Out!

[Anonymous]

Rejected. In state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In state

I'm sorry, stats?

[Anonymous]

In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to say that those getting in submitted test scores and did not go test-optional.

28% of accepted students did not submit scores

putting it another way...72% of the accepted kids submit test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA

[Anonymous]

So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

[Anonymous]

Accepted: in state (NOVA), 4.48 W, test-optional, goodish essays, ib school (a lower ranked one), few ECs related to major and show initiative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

I know 4 in state kids that started UVA this year as second years. Attended schools ranked much lower for one year and transferred in. All were accepted. No way they were getting in straight out of high school. This seems like the way to go if you really want UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

WOW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?

They do what we did: you ho to one of the other 40 public colleges in the Commonwealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Accepted: in state (NOVA), 4.48 W, test-optional, goodish essays, ib school (a lower ranked one), few ECs related to major and show initiative

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA

Congratulations!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?

? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper. They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?

? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper. They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.

This is true. Virginia's public universities compare favorably with most public universities around here (Maryland's non-flagship schools leave much to be desired). JMU, VCU and GMU also compare favorably to the directional schools in most states.

We in NOVA are being forced to accept UVA, VT and W&M become inaccessible to most of our kids. It is like UCLA and UCB in California; those are also quite hard to get into, but the other UC schools (SB, for example) have good reputations, but not as well known as UCB and UCLA.

Of course, this begs the question of why VA has become like CA. Demographics, population growth, the admissions priorities of UVA/VT/W&M all come into play.

The most difficult part of this transition is having VT go from 70% acceptance to more like 40-50% acceptance in a single year. That eliminated a "swing" supplier which would have absorbed folks who couldn't get into UVA or W&M. For that, you can blame the pandemic, admissions priorities, Amazon/Bezos (the tieup with VT), the 2019 yield debacle, etc.

Thus, our choices are either accept going to the 2nd or even 3rd tier VA publics, or save up and go private or OOS. In this status-conscious, high-achieving area, that is difficult to accept and to do, but the situation is just going to get worse.