Does anyone not apply to UVA?

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Anonymous wrote:No to UVA or UMD. Those schools have no appeal for us.

I agree.

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

A 1500 is the 99th percentile.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of my kids were interested in UVA. One wanted to be an engineer and one wanted to major in physics. N

Funny, because my kid's best friend is at UVa majoring in physics

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

and how many people are in that category? just curious. That would be maybe 2 in our 400 person class at a Nova public with a 1500 or above but maybe that's the difference between public and private.

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

and how many people are in that category? just curious. That would be maybe 2 in our 400 person class at a Nova public with a 1500 or above but maybe that's the difference between public and private.

NP, purely speculation, my FCPS student got a 1520. It's a great score, but I can't imagine he's in that "elite" company. Maybe someone has historical information, but I would GUESS at least 15% of some DMV public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

and how many people are in that category? just curious. That would be maybe 2 in our 400 person class at a Nova public with a 1500 or above but maybe that's the difference between public and private.

The school doesn't provide consolidated SAT score percentiles, but the 75th percentile is 750 for each part of the SAT, so something like 15% of each class is at 1500 or better, I would guess, which would equate to about 14 people each year.

I'd bet there are more than 2 people over 1500 at the NOVA public.

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to MCPS W School. Got into a discussion in homeroom and discovered all but one of the 15 kids were applying to UVA. Brought this up with his (rather large) friend group at lunch who almost all reported to also be applying to UVA. I know it's a great school but what causes the intensity of the draw for MoCo and DC kids?

My DC did not apply because, at the time and I don't know if it has changed, they required a foreign language. They only had a waiver if you took a foreign language and failed. DC has profound dyslexia and dysgraphia. He would have trouble passing an English fluency test in writing & reading test. without accommodations. So, he did not take a foreign language in HS (or college). He took 8 APs and received 5s in all (including both AP Physics C and BC Calc, AP Chem and AP Bio and took the math classes after BC Calc)- he had a 4.0 unweighted GPA. It was kind of a catch 22. Don't take a language and don't get in because of that or take a language and fail and don't get in because of the lower GPA. It is too bad, it probably would have been an excellent fit for him.

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to MCPS W School. Got into a discussion in homeroom and discovered all but one of the 15 kids were applying to UVA. Brought this up with his (rather large) friend group at lunch who almost all reported to also be applying to UVA. I know it's a great school but what causes the intensity of the draw for MoCo and DC kids?

My DC did not apply because, at the time and I don't know if it has changed, they required a foreign language. They only had a waiver if you took a foreign language and failed. DC has profound dyslexia and dysgraphia. He would have trouble passing an English fluency test in writing & reading test. without accommodations. So, he did not take a foreign language in HS (or college). He took 8 APs and received 5s in all (including both AP Physics C and BC Calc, AP Chem and AP Bio and took the math classes after BC Calc)- he had a 4.0 unweighted GPA. It was kind of a catch 22. Don't take a language and don't get in because of that or take a language and fail and don't get in because of the lower GPA. It is too bad, it probably would have been an excellent fit for him.

Side note: He was accepted into UMD-CP Honors College - or program or whatever it is called.

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Anonymous wrote:DS goes to MCPS W School. Got into a discussion in homeroom and discovered all but one of the 15 kids were applying to UVA. Brought this up with his (rather large) friend group at lunch who almost all reported to also be applying to UVA. I know it's a great school but what causes the intensity of the draw for MoCo and DC kids?

My DC did not apply because, at the time and I don't know if it has changed, they required a foreign language. They only had a waiver if you took a foreign language and failed. DC has profound dyslexia and dysgraphia. He would have trouble passing an English fluency test in writing & reading test. without accommodations. So, he did not take a foreign language in HS (or college). He took 8 APs and received 5s in all (including both AP Physics C and BC Calc, AP Chem and AP Bio and took the math classes after BC Calc)- he had a 4.0 unweighted GPA. It was kind of a catch 22. Don't take a language and don't get in because of that or take a language and fail and don't get in because of the lower GPA. It is too bad, it probably would have been an excellent fit for him.

Side note: He was accepted into UMD-CP Honors College - or program or whatever it is called.

Studying a foreign language is important. Kudos to UVA for requiring it.

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Anonymous wrote:No to UVA or UMD. Those schools have no appeal for us.

This. We are in MD and both kids wanted to be somewhere new and further from home.

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Anonymous wrote:No to UVA or UMD. Those schools have no appeal for us.

This. We are in MD and both kids wanted to be somewhere new and further from home.

That's too bad. We are a close family and our children weren't in a hurry to be "further from home."

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

and how many people are in that category? just curious. That would be maybe 2 in our 400 person class at a Nova public with a 1500 or above but maybe that's the difference between public and private.

The school doesn't provide consolidated SAT score percentiles, but the 75th percentile is 750 for each part of the SAT, so something like 15% of each class is at 1500 or better, I would guess, which would equate to about 14 people each year.

I'd bet there are more than 2 people over 1500 at the NOVA public.

This is wildly, unbelievably wrong. 1420 is like 95th percentile. https://www.cappex.com/articles/testing/what-is-a-good-SAT-score

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Anonymous wrote:My mcps w school senior not applying to uva. Doesn’t like the area.

That's good, because the chances of your kid getting in from out of state are next to none.

Weird, the Naviance data for DD's private school in MD suggests that anyone with a 3.3 GPA and 1500 SAT or better gets admitted to UVA, with plenty of people below that also getting in (just not all of them).

and how many people are in that category? just curious. That would be maybe 2 in our 400 person class at a Nova public with a 1500 or above but maybe that's the difference between public and private.

The school doesn't provide consolidated SAT score percentiles, but the 75th percentile is 750 for each part of the SAT, so something like 15% of each class is at 1500 or better, I would guess, which would equate to about 14 people each year.

I'd bet there are more than 2 people over 1500 at the NOVA public.

This is wildly, unbelievably wrong. 1420 is like 95th percentile. https://www.cappex.com/articles/testing/what-is-a-good-SAT-score

I think the PP above is referring to their private school's score distribution? is that right?

After studying our Naviance, I can guarantee we do not have more than a handful of people at our school with a score that high each year. But again my reason for asking is because it may simply be the different between public and private.