Does one or two Bs mean UVA is off the table?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

I just don’t get this. I hope your kid ended up somewhere amazing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

I just don’t get this. I hope your kid ended up somewhere amazing!

The valedictorian got into UVA, so I don't think they do yield protection or they'd reject that one who is almost certainly going HPY. Maybe something just wasn't great about the application in question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

I just don’t get this. I hope your kid ended up somewhere amazing!

The valedictorian got into UVA, so I don't think they do yield protection or they'd reject that one who is almost certainly going HPY. Maybe something just wasn't great about the application in question.

and yet my valedictorian did get into UVA and did ATTEND and turned out to be one of their most honored students. go figure.

[Anonymous]

UVA is very prestigious

[Anonymous]

I know tons of kids last admission cycle that got in with Bs and 4.2-4.3 GPAs. All really well rounded kids, lots of APs, but nothing near what I hear parents on this site believe is necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

So they did RD from TJ? Why not EA? RD is a much harder admit.

Anyway rumor is UVA takes top 6% of GPAs from TJ. Probably need a higher percentage in for RD. I know kids who got into Georgetown Foreign Service and not UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A "B" is not a mistake.

it is fine. It means literally "good."

Please don't make your kids believe anything less than perfection is disastrous.

Right but when you need a 4.53 GPA just to meet the 75th percentile of last year's incoming students, a B or more can really ruin that

[Anonymous]

Not necessarily. But I’d start picturing how a different school’s car decal will look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

I just don’t get this. I hope your kid ended up somewhere amazing!

The valedictorian got into UVA, so I don't think they do yield protection or they'd reject that one who is almost certainly going HPY. Maybe something just wasn't great about the application in question.

and yet my valedictorian did get into UVA and did ATTEND and turned out to be one of their most honored students. go figure.

aw, what a proud mommy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bet on it. My kid had a GPA of 4.53 after 1st semester of senior year from TJ with a couple of B’s in AP courses, and got rejected by UVA. Kids with lower grades got in. It’s a myth.

I just don’t get this. I hope your kid ended up somewhere amazing!

The valedictorian got into UVA, so I don't think they do yield protection or they'd reject that one who is almost certainly going HPY. Maybe something just wasn't great about the application in question.

and yet my valedictorian did get into UVA and did ATTEND and turned out to be one of their most honored students. go figure.

So some of us agree that pp's kid who didn't get in wasn't "yield protected."

[Anonymous]

UVA has abandoned Virginia. They should stop getting state funding. Half of their students are OOS.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/historic-application-year-uva-offers-entry-nearly-6000-early-action-cycle

[Anonymous]

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But if those kids were hooked they are in a different league of competition. UVA's current GPA for incoming freshmen at the75th percentile is 4.53 and median is 4.40. The bottom 25th percentile is 4.24 Assuming the bottom percentile is hooked, that leaves a vanilla kid from nova aiming for 4.53 and above in order to consider UVA a reach (no one considers it a target or safety anymore). That GPA, while weighted, doesn't allow much room for Bs.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

Here. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Why is that missing half the students? Only 4000 incoming first-years.

[Anonymous]

What does a 4.53 look like?
With all As, that's something like 10 AP/IB/DE
and 10 Honors classes.
Are electives honors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA has abandoned Virginia. They should stop getting state funding. Half of their students are OOS.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/historic-application-year-uva-offers-entry-nearly-6000-early-action-cycle

No. Only 1/3 are OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

But if those kids were hooked they are in a different league of competition. UVA's current GPA for incoming freshmen at the75th percentile is 4.53 and median is 4.40. The bottom 25th percentile is 4.24 Assuming the bottom percentile is hooked, that leaves a vanilla kid from nova aiming for 4.53 and above in order to consider UVA a reach (no one considers it a target or safety anymore). That GPA, while weighted, doesn't allow much room for Bs.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

Here. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Why is that missing half the students? Only 4000 incoming first-years.

It’s correct. That is the number of first years at UVA.