UVA RD is Out!

[Anonymous]

My friends in other parts of Virginia are adamant that UVA prefers NOVA students.

Everyone thinks they are at a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friends in other parts of Virginia are adamant that UVA prefers NOVA students.

Everyone thinks they are at a disadvantage.

That's only because everyone feels there is a high concentration of NOVA kids at UVA but they are not realizing that NOVA is the main population center of Virginia and is affluent so alot of kids from educated families, money to put into test prep, the best private schools etc.

My kid was speaking to someone in the Richmond area after ED decisions came out and he told my son that 10 kids were accepted ED at his school that day. We haven't even had 10 kids accepted YET in our NOVA public out of 75+ applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friends in other parts of Virginia are adamant that UVA prefers NOVA students.

Everyone thinks they are at a disadvantage.

That's only because everyone feels there is a high concentration of NOVA kids at UVA but they are not realizing that NOVA is the main population center of Virginia and is affluent so alot of kids from educated families, money to put into test prep, the best private schools etc.

My kid was speaking to someone in the Richmond area after ED decisions came out and he told my son that 10 kids were accepted ED at his school that day. We haven't even had 10 kids accepted YET in our NOVA public out of 75+ applications.

How would you even know this? Even the busiest of busybodies can't know the admissions results of an entire public school class.

[Anonymous]

This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

Can’t imagine why UVA grads have such an overblown sense of importance. Where could it possibly come from? It’s a mystery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

Can’t imagine why UVA grads have such an overblown sense of importance. Where could it possibly come from? It’s a mystery.

This isn't a UVA thing. My college went from being a good, regional when I attended to highly selective, national school now. I'm thrilled. I joke that there's no way they'd admit me now. My degree has appreciated in value significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

Can’t imagine why UVA grads have such an overblown sense of importance. Where could it possibly come from? It’s a mystery.

This isn't a UVA thing. My college went from being a good, regional when I attended to highly selective, national school now. I'm thrilled. I joke that there's no way they'd admit me now. My degree has appreciated in value significantly.

I don’t disagree with you. But the yammering about “prestige” and “exclusivity” is so self-unaware and so on-brand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?

? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper. They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.

This is true. Virginia's public universities compare favorably with most public universities around here (Maryland's non-flagship schools leave much to be desired). JMU, VCU and GMU also compare favorably to the directional schools in most states.

We in NOVA are being forced to accept UVA, VT and W&M become inaccessible to most of our kids. It is like UCLA and UCB in California; those are also quite hard to get into, but the other UC schools (SB, for example) have good reputations, but not as well known as UCB and UCLA.

Of course, this begs the question of why VA has become like CA. Demographics, population growth, the admissions priorities of UVA/VT/W&M all come into play.

The most difficult part of this transition is having VT go from 70% acceptance to more like 40-50% acceptance in a single year. That eliminated a "swing" supplier which would have absorbed folks who couldn't get into UVA or W&M. For that, you can blame the pandemic, admissions priorities, Amazon/Bezos (the tieup with VT), the 2019 yield debacle, etc.

Thus, our choices are either accept going to the 2nd or even 3rd tier VA publics, or save up and go private or OOS. In this status-conscious, high-achieving area, that is difficult to accept and to do, but the situation is just going to get worse.

This. I don't think "first-generation" should be pushed as much as it has been as the "new" special class. I'm first generation and got no breaks. Why should I have gotten any breaks simply because my parents didn't finish or attend college? If parents care enough, they should write their legislators in Richmond. I'm happier if those first-generation kids who took all the TJ slots are Virginians. I'm not going to be happy if those at VT and the 952 who got into UVA ED and EA are from other states. California should be taking care of its own first-generation students. And since it has already limited OOS to 10% or less, (same with Texas), now is the time to get UVA and Va Tech to reduce the amount of the OOS students and also SCHEV should investigate how many of those first-generation slots went to OOS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

Can’t imagine why UVA grads have such an overblown sense of importance. Where could it possibly come from? It’s a mystery.

This isn't a UVA thing. My college went from being a good, regional when I attended to highly selective, national school now. I'm thrilled. I joke that there's no way they'd admit me now. My degree has appreciated in value significantly.

Which school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please provide your stats after your results, like College Confidential users do. Here's a sample:

These kids are superhuman:

Accepted oos and i was selected to be a rodman scholar!
1570 SAT, 800 SAT Bio, 790 SAT Math II, 13 APs, 4.0UW/ 4.8W GPA, national merit finalist, ap scholar
also a pre-professional ballerina, some biological research through a selective teen research program, school newspaper editor, math club president, volunteering, some other STEM stuff

Shit. My kids don't have a chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. Adds to the prestige and exclusivity of UVA, which two of my kids attended.

Can’t imagine why UVA grads have such an overblown sense of importance. Where could it possibly come from? It’s a mystery.

This isn't a UVA thing. My college went from being a good, regional when I attended to highly selective, national school now. I'm thrilled. I joke that there's no way they'd admit me now. My degree has appreciated in value significantly.

Which school?

NP, sounds like Northeastern or BU??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please provide your stats after your results, like College Confidential users do. Here's a sample:

These kids are superhuman:

Accepted oos and i was selected to be a rodman scholar!
1570 SAT, 800 SAT Bio, 790 SAT Math II, 13 APs, 4.0UW/ 4.8W GPA, national merit finalist, ap scholar
also a pre-professional ballerina, some biological research through a selective teen research program, school newspaper editor, math club president, volunteering, some other STEM stuff

Shit. My kids don't have a chance.

+1, although that is an out of stater (I keep telling myself...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please provide your stats after your results, like College Confidential users do. Here's a sample:

These kids are superhuman:

Accepted oos and i was selected to be a rodman scholar!
1570 SAT, 800 SAT Bio, 790 SAT Math II, 13 APs, 4.0UW/ 4.8W GPA, national merit finalist, ap scholar
also a pre-professional ballerina, some biological research through a selective teen research program, school newspaper editor, math club president, volunteering, some other STEM stuff

Shit. My kids don't have a chance.

+1, although that is an out of stater (I keep telling myself...)

And also suspicious - a pre-professional ballerina usually is in a Conservatory during the day and barely has time for core classes, and most definitely not a scientific research (which I know takes time, since I'm a research scientist) and all the rest of it.

The person who wrote this clearly exaggerated a whole lot!!!
Now did they get creative just for the web, or did colleges buy it too, that is the question...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please provide your stats after your results, like College Confidential users do. Here's a sample:

These kids are superhuman:

Accepted oos and i was selected to be a rodman scholar!
1570 SAT, 800 SAT Bio, 790 SAT Math II, 13 APs, 4.0UW/ 4.8W GPA, national merit finalist, ap scholar
also a pre-professional ballerina, some biological research through a selective teen research program, school newspaper editor, math club president, volunteering, some other STEM stuff

Shit. My kids don't have a chance.

+1, although that is an out of stater (I keep telling myself...)

And also suspicious - a pre-professional ballerina usually is in a Conservatory during the day and barely has time for core classes, and most definitely not a scientific research (which I know takes time, since I'm a research scientist) and all the rest of it.

The person who wrote this clearly exaggerated a whole lot!!!
Now did they get creative just for the web, or did colleges buy it too, that is the question...

It’a a quote taken directly out of Reddit. Anonymous. Why would you lie there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.

I know 4 in state kids that started UVA this year as second years. Attended schools ranked much lower for one year and transferred in. All were accepted. No way they were getting in straight out of high school. This seems like the way to go if you really want UVA.

I don’t think that will be possible in the future. UVA may be oversubscribed this fall, which means no second year transfers. Also UVA has to keep space for the 600 guaranteed community college transfers coming in in the third year. Everything is changing.