UVA EA out Friday!

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How does UVA compare to schools like Columbia and Penn? Serious question. Are the Ivies worth the tuition for an in-state UVA candidate

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Anonymous wrote:How does UVA compare to schools like Columbia and Penn? Serious question. Are the Ivies worth the tuition for an in-state UVA candidate

Lots of people do not think so. Maybe Wharton is, but it depends on your budget.

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DC will be playing in a varsity game Friday at 5. She has a 4.1W but is legacy. Everything else fits the profile. I think she will get denied. Very stressful.

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Anonymous wrote:People need to say which school system. We are in APS which doesn’t give extra points for honors/intensified like FCPS does. Seems to mean lower weighted GPAs. But yes, unweighted is what matters.

Arlington: This says APs and IBs are 5.0. Also says an A starts at an 89.5. That’s incredibly generous.

https://yhs.apsva.us/about-us/grading-at-yorktown/

Right, but they don’t have honors classes that also have a grade bump like they do in FCPS. FWIW, my son got into UVA Last year with a 4.3 in APS. 4.0 unweighted.

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Anonymous wrote:This will be a sad day. Counselor had already told us with wgpa 4.32, DD will not be accepted. But she still submitted the application hoping that the other aspect of her file may win over under the "holistic" review ...

They actually said that??

Not PP, but that's completely reasonable when compared to PP's kid's classmates, whom we don't know. A 4.32 is below last year's mean for incoming students.

The stats indicate that students last year reported a 4.52 at the 75th percentile (meaning 25% had higher than a 4.52); median was a 4.38; and bottom 25th percentile had 4.20.

Analogous to what you put in parentheses, bottom 25% would be BELOW 4.20.

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It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

The out of state tuition pays the bills and the state legislature doesn't seem interested in changing that. We have this conversation a lot here.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

Wouldn't that take away some of the best and the brightest who end up at the other VA publics?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

The out of state tuition pays the bills and the state legislature doesn't seem interested in changing that. We have this conversation a lot here.

Yup, it’s been this way forever, and state support for UVA has only decreased as percentage of overall costs. VA residents are lucky they haven’t decreased in-state admissions. Michigan is essentially 50-50.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

The out of state tuition pays the bills and the state legislature doesn't seem interested in changing that. We have this conversation a lot here.

The real problem is that so many OOS students are willing to pay $80K~$90K per year to attend UVA!!!! The OOS admission rate is only ~12%. So UVA does not care.

money talks.

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Anonymous wrote:People need to say which school system. We are in APS which doesn’t give extra points for honors/intensified like FCPS does. Seems to mean lower weighted GPAs. But yes, unweighted is what matters.

Arlington: This says APs and IBs are 5.0. Also says an A starts at an 89.5. That’s incredibly generous.

https://yhs.apsva.us/about-us/grading-at-yorktown/

Our private has A- so even with 93 you wouldn’t have a 4.0

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Anonymous wrote:How does UVA compare to schools like Columbia and Penn? Serious question. Are the Ivies worth the tuition for an in-state UVA candidate

For our high stats kid it was not. VA has excellent value in-state options.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People need to say which school system. We are in APS which doesn’t give extra points for honors/intensified like FCPS does. Seems to mean lower weighted GPAs. But yes, unweighted is what matters.

Arlington: This says APs and IBs are 5.0. Also says an A starts at an 89.5. That’s incredibly generous.

https://yhs.apsva.us/about-us/grading-at-yorktown/

Our private has A- so even with 93 you wouldn’t have a 4.0

And this is why colleges receive school profiles and AOs get to know the schools in a region. So they understand the differences.

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Anonymous wrote:How does UVA compare to schools like Columbia and Penn? Serious question. Are the Ivies worth the tuition for an in-state UVA candidate

For our high stats kid it was not. VA has excellent value in-state options.

Did your DC pick UVA over Ivy or simply choose not to apply

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Anonymous wrote:It’s too bad that the flagship of a state with 8.75 million people in it only educates 17.6 thousand undergraduates. Only 2/3 of them are Virginians. Citizens should demand that UVA have 82% from instate, like UNC, since the cannot or won’t increase its overall size.

UVA did increase enrollment a few years ago. All first-years are required to live on campus, and they demolished the "new dorms" and replaced them with other "new dorms" with increased occupancy. (I found it a bit odd when visiting with my kid that the "old dorms" were still standing and that it was the "new dorms" that were slated for replacement because of maintenance issues. The former "new dorms" were suite-style, while the new ones are hall-style like the old dorms.)