Does ED help at UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone commit to a binding ED program if it gave no advantage. Why offer it at all then?

They say they offer it so that students can get a decision earlier, in December instead of February.

But it doesn’t need to be binding for them to give you an earlier decision. Why make it binding if it gives no advantage? Just make it EA.

I guess they can't make decisions on 50,000 applications by December but they can make decisions on 4,000 applications. So that is the bargain they are making.

57,000 applications last year

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone commit to a binding ED program if it gave no advantage. Why offer it at all then?

They say they offer it so that students can get a decision earlier, in December instead of February.

But it doesn’t need to be binding for them to give you an earlier decision. Why make it binding if it gives no advantage? Just make it EA.

I guess they can't make decisions on 50,000 applications by December but they can make decisions on 4,000 applications. So that is the bargain they are making.

57,000 applications last year

That figure includes RD though

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Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

Most schools have multiple prompts. Ask any college counselor. They will tell you to work your story into an essay. That's where the game is now being played.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

Most schools have multiple prompts. Ask any college counselor. They will tell you to work your story into an essay. That's where the game is now being played.

+1. ^^ Most prompts are sufficiently open-ended to allow for this

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

Most schools have multiple prompts. Ask any college counselor. They will tell you to work your story into an essay. That's where the game is now being played.

Are there other selective schools that have a legacy essay?

[Anonymous]

Of course ED helps at UVA. It helps UVA with a higher yield. Not so sure it helps students who get accepted and lose out at going to a better school

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Anonymous wrote:Of course ED helps at UVA. It helps UVA with a higher yield. Not so sure it helps students who get accepted and lose out at going to a better school

What’s a better school?

[Anonymous]

Now that UVA has done away with deferrals, does that mean the kids go straight to the waitlist if not accepted or denied?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now that UVA has done away with deferrals, does that mean the kids go straight to the waitlist if not accepted or denied?

Yes. Which is why ED might be a disadvantage this year if they are being conservative with ED offers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

Yeah. That’s a “let’s see who are legacy are beyond your parents”- since parents education/alma mater is already in common app.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

Most schools have multiple prompts. Ask any college counselor. They will tell you to work your story into an essay. That's where the game is now being played.

Are there other selective schools that have a legacy essay?

Most top schools (ivies etc) still have legacy. Period. UVA did away with that in June.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

Yeah. That’s a “let’s see who are legacy are beyond your parents”- since parents education/alma mater is already in common app.

UVA says that they are suppressing the common app info about parents so they won’t see it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There clearly is a huge acceptance rate in ED, so yes, there is an advantage. Further, recruited athletes are told to apply EA so they are not in the ED applicant pool like they are at other schools.

Doesn't mean there's an advantage, the pool could be stronger.

If we are going by what Dean J says, EA is the strongest pool And it also is when athletic recruits apply.

I will say that UVA’s public statements about legacies also don’t seem to be a hundred percent accurate.

ED has the best admissions odds, by their own data, regardless of what the website says.

The legacy stuff is weird. They have an essay to talk about it but then say they don’t consider it or race.

All schools are now doing that post the Scotus decision. Roberts said race could be discussed in the essay. So the box is gone and applicants are told to bring up race in the essay

UVA has both a diversity essay and a UVA connections essay

Most schools have multiple prompts. Ask any college counselor. They will tell you to work your story into an essay. That's where the game is now being played.

Are there other selective schools that have a legacy essay?

Most top schools (ivies etc) still have legacy. Period. UVA did away with that in June.

So if they did away with it, what’s the point of the essay?