UVA just offered spots to 57 people on its wait-list.

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Anonymous wrote:Nice of them to go straight to the OOS candidates when so many deserving in state kids would love to have a shot!!

They have quotas for in and out of state. This just means they got more rejections than expected from oos kids.

[Anonymous]

One fcps got off.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.

Gag at “we.”

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Anonymous wrote:Which means UVA is the back-up... to which schools?

NOVA-region privates: UVA is the backup for the ivies, the non-ivy T10, as well as WashU, Emory, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Williams , and more.

Heard same thing at the cross-town school--they had uva WL offer today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice of them to go straight to the OOS candidates when so many deserving in state kids would love to have a shot!!

Who do you think is paying the bills?

[Anonymous]

Two things to reiterate that earlier posters mentioned.

UVA has become more careful about the number of people they accept in the original process because they don’t want to be over enrolled. This happened a bit several years ago (several hundred more than goal) with TO, and they don’t want it again. That’s why they’re going to the WL earlier than some other schools.

Also, UVA has 10 waitlists, two for each of five undergraduate schools, one for instate and one for OOS. This means that you may know some kid who gets off the waitlist with an SAT of1300 while your kid doesn’t, despite their 1500. The difference? The first kid applied to the education school and your kid applied to engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.

“We” picked?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.

“We” picked?

My kid also picked William & Mary for the smaller size (and getting Monroe helped).

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Anonymous wrote:And my kid picked UVA over Tech and W&M. Strange how this works, they pick schools that appeal to them. The passive aggressive BS on this is juvenile.

I think some posters were responding to the PP who asked - incredulously - which schools students could *possibly* prefer more than UVA. And so they were answering. Hardly "passive aggressive," unless you're overly sensitive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And my kid picked UVA over Tech and W&M. Strange how this works, they pick schools that appeal to them. The passive aggressive BS on this is juvenile.

I think some posters were responding to the PP who asked - incredulously - which schools students could *possibly* prefer more than UVA. And so they were answering. Hardly "passive aggressive," unless you're overly sensitive.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you surprised? A lot of people just use UVA as their backup if their first choice doesn’t come through.

Can we start the “UVA is 13th grade” argument again? Pleeeease?🙏🏼

[Anonymous]

UVA is essentially an extension of HS! It’s 13th grade basically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA is essentially an extension of HS! It’s 13th grade basically.

Amen, brother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two things to reiterate that earlier posters mentioned.

UVA has become more careful about the number of people they accept in the original process because they don’t want to be over enrolled. This happened a bit several years ago (several hundred more than goal) with TO, and they don’t want it again. That’s why they’re going to the WL earlier than some other schools.

Also, UVA has 10 waitlists, two for each of five undergraduate schools, one for instate and one for OOS. This means that you may know some kid who gets off the waitlist with an SAT of1300 while your kid doesn’t, despite their 1500. The difference? The first kid applied to the education school and your kid applied to engineering.

When did UVA go way over? I’ve seen that talked about with VT.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA was not our backup, but we did pick William and Mary over UVA.

Same. Liked the smaller size