What’s next for UVA

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Anonymous wrote:Also I’m sure they still consider legacy but it’s hush hush. And only legacy that give money and are active.

Anyone who gives them enough money to have a relationship with an advancement officer—alum or not—will get their admission file flagged.

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

If admissions will only be merit based, then even more women will be admitted. High school girls tend to outperform the boys. That is why I mentioned earlier the schools might end up using some DEI to admit more male students.

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

Of course they can, but why did Youngkin sign it in the first place? Honestly, legacy admission coming back would benefit my kids hugely. But if it means having to attend under the leadership of the Cooch, I think we’d pass.

Another clueless poster. The bump was never that big to begin with, and if you’re in state it was practically nothing. “Hugely?” Um, no.

Not hugely as in, “my kid with a 3.0 is getting in.” But hugely, as in, if it came down to my kid vs another in their class, the kid with two parents, a grandparent, and several uncles and cousins as alums would get the nod.

Legacy is parents. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit about uncles and cousins. UVA is full of students whose cousins didn’t get in. Get a grip. You are waaay overestimating how legacy worked at UVA.

Ok, fine. Then if it came down to my kid vs another in their class with equal stats, the one with two alum parents would be favored. Better?

Uh huh. Sure.

Where are you getting the fanciful idea that two kids exist with identical stats except one is a legacy? They don’t.

We have very good friends who were both UVA grads. Their very smart and perfectly well accomplished in state daughter ended up at Oberlin after not even getting waitlisted. They were furious. And it happened all the time. It’s a large state school where many in state applicants have parents who went there. It’s also much more competitive now than when you got in. You yourself probably wouldn’t get in today.

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

If admissions will only be merit based, then even more women will be admitted. High school girls tend to outperform the boys. That is why I mentioned earlier the schools might end up using some DEI to admit more male students.

You don’t understand what DEI means. The one thing it DOESNT mean is favoring male students.

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

If admissions will only be merit based, then even more women will be admitted. High school girls tend to outperform the boys. That is why I mentioned earlier the schools might end up using some DEI to admit more male students.

You don’t understand what DEI means. The one thing it DOESNT mean is favoring male students.

DEI definitely means lower admissions criteria for men.

[Anonymous]

DEI also means more kids from depressed areas of the state.

UVA is going to be shifting towards more female, more NoVA, more affluent student body without DEI.

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

Of course they can, but why did Youngkin sign it in the first place? Honestly, legacy admission coming back would benefit my kids hugely. But if it means having to attend under the leadership of the Cooch, I think we’d pass.

Another clueless poster. The bump was never that big to begin with, and if you’re in state it was practically nothing. “Hugely?” Um, no.

Not hugely as in, “my kid with a 3.0 is getting in.” But hugely, as in, if it came down to my kid vs another in their class, the kid with two parents, a grandparent, and several uncles and cousins as alums would get the nod.

Legacy is parents. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit about uncles and cousins. UVA is full of students whose cousins didn’t get in. Get a grip. You are waaay overestimating how legacy worked at UVA.

Ok, fine. Then if it came down to my kid vs another in their class with equal stats, the one with two alum parents would be favored. Better?

Uh huh. Sure.

Where are you getting the fanciful idea that two kids exist with identical stats except one is a legacy? They don’t.

We have very good friends who were both UVA grads. Their very smart and perfectly well accomplished in state daughter ended up at Oberlin after not even getting waitlisted. They were furious. And it happened all the time. It’s a large state school where many in state applicants have parents who went there. It’s also much more competitive now than when you got in. You yourself probably wouldn’t get in today.

Thanks for your little anecdote. You obviously know more than me and you’ve totally put me in my place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DEI also means more kids from depressed areas of the state.

UVA is going to be shifting towards more female, more NoVA, more affluent student body without DEI.

A sea of Tracey Flicks.

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

If admissions will only be merit based, then even more women will be admitted. High school girls tend to outperform the boys. That is why I mentioned earlier the schools might end up using some DEI to admit more male students.

In the outlier scoring ranges of standardized tests (i.e., on the high end, the population that UVA will be considering as applicants for serious consideration), boys actually outperform girls. Not as much as on the GPA side, but the distrust of GPA as a reliable measure of preparedness is only growing year after year anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

What a sad legacy for UVA…

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

If admissions will only be merit based, then even more women will be admitted. High school girls tend to outperform the boys. That is why I mentioned earlier the schools might end up using some DEI to admit more male students.

In the outlier scoring ranges of standardized tests (i.e., on the high end, the population that UVA will be considering as applicants for serious consideration), boys actually outperform girls. Not as much as on the GPA side, but the distrust of GPA as a reliable measure of preparedness is only growing year after year anyway.

lol, if it favors girls at all, then of course it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

Of course they can, but why did Youngkin sign it in the first place? Honestly, legacy admission coming back would benefit my kids hugely. But if it means having to attend under the leadership of the Cooch, I think we’d pass.

Another clueless poster. The bump was never that big to begin with, and if you’re in state it was practically nothing. “Hugely?” Um, no.

Not hugely as in, “my kid with a 3.0 is getting in.” But hugely, as in, if it came down to my kid vs another in their class, the kid with two parents, a grandparent, and several uncles and cousins as alums would get the nod.

Legacy is parents. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit about uncles and cousins. UVA is full of students whose cousins didn’t get in. Get a grip. You are waaay overestimating how legacy worked at UVA.

Ok, fine. Then if it came down to my kid vs another in their class with equal stats, the one with two alum parents would be favored. Better?

Uh huh. Sure.

Where are you getting the fanciful idea that two kids exist with identical stats except one is a legacy? They don’t.

We have very good friends who were both UVA grads. Their very smart and perfectly well accomplished in state daughter ended up at Oberlin after not even getting waitlisted. They were furious. And it happened all the time. It’s a large state school where many in state applicants have parents who went there. It’s also much more competitive now than when you got in. You yourself probably wouldn’t get in today.

Thanks for your little anecdote. You obviously know more than me and you’ve totally put me in my place.

You’re welcome.

I’m sorry you don’t have the golden ticket to UVA anymore. But as I said you never really did. You’re just misinformed.

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

Of course they can, but why did Youngkin sign it in the first place? Honestly, legacy admission coming back would benefit my kids hugely. But if it means having to attend under the leadership of the Cooch, I think we’d pass.

Another clueless poster. The bump was never that big to begin with, and if you’re in state it was practically nothing. “Hugely?” Um, no.

Not hugely as in, “my kid with a 3.0 is getting in.” But hugely, as in, if it came down to my kid vs another in their class, the kid with two parents, a grandparent, and several uncles and cousins as alums would get the nod.

Legacy is parents. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit about uncles and cousins. UVA is full of students whose cousins didn’t get in. Get a grip. You are waaay overestimating how legacy worked at UVA.

Ok, fine. Then if it came down to my kid vs another in their class with equal stats, the one with two alum parents would be favored. Better?

Uh huh. Sure.

Where are you getting the fanciful idea that two kids exist with identical stats except one is a legacy? They don’t.

We have very good friends who were both UVA grads. Their very smart and perfectly well accomplished in state daughter ended up at Oberlin after not even getting waitlisted. They were furious. And it happened all the time. It’s a large state school where many in state applicants have parents who went there. It’s also much more competitive now than when you got in. You yourself probably wouldn’t get in today.

Thanks for your little anecdote. You obviously know more than me and you’ve totally put me in my place.

You’re welcome.

I’m sorry you don’t have the golden ticket to UVA anymore. But as I said you never really did. You’re just misinformed.

Don’t be sorry. As I said, we wouldn’t even want it under these circumstances. Curious though, if it was never a real advantage, then why did they have to officially end it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:More Asians

And even more women. Unless they do some kind of DEI for men.

More women? It is already disproportionately female at UVA.

It's disproportionally female at every school except for the Ivies.
Michigan, UNC, Georgetown, and on and on are all 65%/35% female.

Wrong. Michigan is 47% male to 53% female. Hardly “disproportionally female.”

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Anonymous wrote:Legacy admissions was banned statewide by a bill signed by Youngkin. A new president at UVA can’t change that.

The forces that pushed Ryan out removed a university president by federal pressure for the first time in the history of the United States. Do you think they care and or can’t use the same pressure to impact policy in VA? Wake up

Of course they can, but why did Youngkin sign it in the first place? Honestly, legacy admission coming back would benefit my kids hugely. But if it means having to attend under the leadership of the Cooch, I think we’d pass.

Another clueless poster. The bump was never that big to begin with, and if you’re in state it was practically nothing. “Hugely?” Um, no.

Not hugely as in, “my kid with a 3.0 is getting in.” But hugely, as in, if it came down to my kid vs another in their class, the kid with two parents, a grandparent, and several uncles and cousins as alums would get the nod.

Legacy is parents. That’s it. Nobody gives a shit about uncles and cousins. UVA is full of students whose cousins didn’t get in. Get a grip. You are waaay overestimating how legacy worked at UVA.

Ok, fine. Then if it came down to my kid vs another in their class with equal stats, the one with two alum parents would be favored. Better?

Uh huh. Sure.

Where are you getting the fanciful idea that two kids exist with identical stats except one is a legacy? They don’t.

We have very good friends who were both UVA grads. Their very smart and perfectly well accomplished in state daughter ended up at Oberlin after not even getting waitlisted. They were furious. And it happened all the time. It’s a large state school where many in state applicants have parents who went there. It’s also much more competitive now than when you got in. You yourself probably wouldn’t get in today.

Thanks for your little anecdote. You obviously know more than me and you’ve totally put me in my place.

You’re welcome.

I’m sorry you don’t have the golden ticket to UVA anymore. But as I said you never really did. You’re just misinformed.

Don’t be sorry. As I said, we wouldn’t even want it under these circumstances. Curious though, if it was never a real advantage, then why did they have to officially end it?

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