UVA early decision

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my kids went to UVA.

Two of my kids got into UVA but chose not to go since it was their safety.

Three of my kids were begged by admissions officers at UVA to apply, but laughed in their faces.

My kids actually spit in their faces. 😁

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Anonymous wrote:Just follow Dean J, she'll let you know when coming out

Thank you. I was hoping one of you fancy pants would have the inside scoop!

I honestly love this response, OP. Warm and funny.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any other state flagships that have ED?

Arguably WM and VT Engineering are also flagships.

No. There can only be one flagship. It doesn’t mean they are lesser schools though.

There can be more than one flagship (e.g. Auburn and Alabama). The Commonwealth of Virginia has actually never designated a flagship, as some states have.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any other state flagships that have ED?

Yes, but you know you can just Google that.
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/all-colleges/?admissions=earlyDecision&type=public

Virginia Tech is the land grant institution in Virginia and they have ED.

This list is not accurate. IL and CT are listed but don't have ED. UVM does have ED. Those are the ones listed. So the only two that seem to have it are UVM and UVA (though there could be others that aren't on this list). There are other state schools on this list but they are not flagships.

I think UVA probably resurrected it because VT and W&M have it.

Public schools should not have ED. Period.

I agree. UVA originally abandoned it out of an interest in equity. They shouldn’t have reinstated it.

But if you are going to compete in the USNWR rankings, you have too. It's the right choice for UVA because it continues to rise in the rankings. It won't if it drops ED and doesn't scoop up the top students who will commit and increase yield stats. That is true now of all institutions in the US

UCLA, Cal, Michigan and Florida are all ranked close to UVA and they do not have ED.

The biggest change to shake up USNWR in the last few years is percent with Pell Grants. That may well go down if more are accepted via ED.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any other state flagships that have ED?

Yes, but you know you can just Google that.
https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/all-colleges/?admissions=earlyDecision&type=public

Virginia Tech is the land grant institution in Virginia and they have ED.

This list is not accurate. IL and CT are listed but don't have ED. UVM does have ED. Those are the ones listed. So the only two that seem to have it are UVM and UVA (though there could be others that aren't on this list). There are other state schools on this list but they are not flagships.

I think UVA probably resurrected it because VT and W&M have it.

UVA had ED before either of those two schools did, but dropped it citing equity, but brought it back.

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UVA brought back ED because too many of their best qualified in-state students were using it as a safety. There is documentation about that, but I’m too lazy to find it. Essentially, highly qualified in-state students would get an EA from UVA, shop the Top 20 or merit scholarships, then make a decision. Now, a lot of these kids must choose UVA as ED or risk a rejection.

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^ PP. And, yes, ED is fair because UVA is forced by state law to take 2/3 of its students from VA. In-state students can’t expect to have this advantage and not show some loyalty. UVA cannot maintain their academic standards if they let other schools cherry-pick the states best students while UVA must comply with the state’s admission requirement. Furthermore, overwhelmingly, most selective schools take a large portion of their students from ED. UVA is increasingly no different.

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UVA admissions deans don’t encourage ED like other schools do. Why is that?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA admissions deans don’t encourage ED like other schools do. Why is that?

Because they don't have to. Kids know that ED can make the difference between getting accepted or not.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA admissions deans don’t encourage ED like other schools do. Why is that?

Because they don't have to. Kids know that ED can make the difference between getting accepted or not.

So why does UVA tell people it doesn’t make a difference? It’s my junior’s top choice but we went to an admissions program where they claimed it doesn’t make a difference.

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Because if you are qualified you will get in and if you are not qualified you won’t. So to the admissions officer there isn’t a different in decision programs, just a difference in applicants.

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All these AOs say the same thing. Applying ED doesn’t make you a qualified candidate.

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Anonymous wrote:All these AOs say the same thing. Applying ED doesn’t make you a qualified candidate.

My older child is at a different school where he decided to apply ED because it was his first choice and the AOs made it very clear that ED at that school provides a significant bump. I read somewhere that (in general) ED helps the students who might have been waitlist if they’d applied RD but they would’ve gotten in ED.

So it’s not whether it makes you a qualified candidate it just might push an applicant from WL to acceptance.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA admissions deans don’t encourage ED like other schools do. Why is that?

Because they don't have to. Kids know that ED can make the difference between getting accepted or not.

So why does UVA tell people it doesn’t make a difference? It’s my junior’s top choice but we went to an admissions program where they claimed it doesn’t make a difference.

Of course it makes a difference when it comes to odds of admission. If UVA (or any school) accepts X amount of applicants from ED, then there are that many fewer spaces for the many RD applicants to compete for.

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The Cavalier Daily article announcing Early Decision in 2019 says UVA started studying ED a year before and that coincides with a new president. I’m sure there were new board members because it was the year of a new governor as well.