UVA admissions from NOVA public schools

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Anonymous wrote:UVA probably doesn’t have a quota, but they do have high standards. Unless something were to dramatically shift a school’s underlying demographics, it’s probably fair to say that about the same percent each year will meet UVA’s standards. What are those standards? As another poster mentioned, it’s roughly top 5% of class, 33+ ACT, 1450+ SAT, 8+ AP classes, and 4.35+ GPA (recently this has been inflated due to COVID grades). If a school has 500 kids, 5% is 25 kids. That’s about the number that get admitted.

A previous poster mentioned that FCPS has approximately a 30% acceptance rate. Way more than 5.

They mean that the top 5% is about 25 kids. The top 5% being a typical line in the sand between getting into UVA and not getting in within NOVA schools.

You’re assuming that the entire top 5% of the class applies to UVA, which is definitely not the case anywhere.

THIS ^^. The top 5% are applying to Ivies +.

Even the top 1% are pressed to get into ivies w/o a hook most have 0 chance

True - but the point is that kids at that level are only applying to UVA as a safety. That's it.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA probably doesn’t have a quota, but they do have high standards. Unless something were to dramatically shift a school’s underlying demographics, it’s probably fair to say that about the same percent each year will meet UVA’s standards. What are those standards? As another poster mentioned, it’s roughly top 5% of class, 33+ ACT, 1450+ SAT, 8+ AP classes, and 4.35+ GPA (recently this has been inflated due to COVID grades). If a school has 500 kids, 5% is 25 kids. That’s about the number that get admitted.

A previous poster mentioned that FCPS has approximately a 30% acceptance rate. Way more than 5.

They mean that the top 5% is about 25 kids. The top 5% being a typical line in the sand between getting into UVA and not getting in within NOVA schools.

You’re assuming that the entire top 5% of the class applies to UVA, which is definitely not the case anywhere.

THIS ^^. The top 5% are applying to Ivies +.

And UVA. Ivies are a crapshoot for nearly everyone.

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Eh. My kid was top 10% and NMSF and took a free ride to a school DCUM mocks.

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Anonymous wrote:According to Naviance at my kids' NOVA high school, UVA admits about 50 students per year (range from 45-51 over the past seven years). That holds steady regardless of how many apply. So, while they say they don't have quotas they sure seem to have a quota.

Our FCPS high school similarly had 45 kids accepted to UVA last year. According to our high school counselor, these kids were either hooked or had 4.4+ GPAs (which you can see on Naviance) in addition to lots of rigorous APs, SAT scores near or above 1500, etc. So no, it's not at all impossible for a kid to get into UVA from NOVA, but unless your kid has a hook, a 4.2 and 1440 SAT isn't going to cut it barring something unusual.

What's a hook? Being a legacy? Sports? Patent pending?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA probably doesn’t have a quota, but they do have high standards. Unless something were to dramatically shift a school’s underlying demographics, it’s probably fair to say that about the same percent each year will meet UVA’s standards. What are those standards? As another poster mentioned, it’s roughly top 5% of class, 33+ ACT, 1450+ SAT, 8+ AP classes, and 4.35+ GPA (recently this has been inflated due to COVID grades). If a school has 500 kids, 5% is 25 kids. That’s about the number that get admitted.

A previous poster mentioned that FCPS has approximately a 30% acceptance rate. Way more than 5.

They mean that the top 5% is about 25 kids. The top 5% being a typical line in the sand between getting into UVA and not getting in within NOVA schools.

You’re assuming that the entire top 5% of the class applies to UVA, which is definitely not the case anywhere.

It’s probably very close. Even if kids want to attend Ivies, everyone knows those schools are crapshoots. UVA is frequently a backup for even the brightest kids in NOVA.

This, most of the top 5% is going to apply to UVA for no other reason than as a safety.

As I just demonstrated this is not true. Plus what on earth are you talking about? We are talking about how hard it is to get into UVA; nobody but the absolute top student is applying there as a safety. You need to move on to another thread.

I started the UVA vs Georgetown thread. My DS doesn’t want to go to UVA. He is at the top of is class. I know UVA isn’t a safety. It is a target.

He also likes Penn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Cornell. I think he would be disappointed if he only got into UVA.

Well, he should brace himself for the very real possibility of disappointment. And you should too.

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Anonymous wrote:According to Naviance at my kids' NOVA high school, UVA admits about 50 students per year (range from 45-51 over the past seven years). That holds steady regardless of how many apply. So, while they say they don't have quotas they sure seem to have a quota.

Our FCPS high school similarly had 45 kids accepted to UVA last year. According to our high school counselor, these kids were either hooked or had 4.4+ GPAs (which you can see on Naviance) in addition to lots of rigorous APs, SAT scores near or above 1500, etc. So no, it's not at all impossible for a kid to get into UVA from NOVA, but unless your kid has a hook, a 4.2 and 1440 SAT isn't going to cut it barring something unusual.

What's a hook? Being a legacy? Sports? Patent pending?

This pretty much describes my kid. And DC didn't have the "something unusual" and was rejected. Being a legacy and having 10+ years in an EC at a very high level (something physically active, but not technically what most would consider a "sport") did NOT count as "hooks". I didn't expect them to; they're a dime a dozen in NOVA.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA probably doesn’t have a quota, but they do have high standards. Unless something were to dramatically shift a school’s underlying demographics, it’s probably fair to say that about the same percent each year will meet UVA’s standards. What are those standards? As another poster mentioned, it’s roughly top 5% of class, 33+ ACT, 1450+ SAT, 8+ AP classes, and 4.35+ GPA (recently this has been inflated due to COVID grades). If a school has 500 kids, 5% is 25 kids. That’s about the number that get admitted.

A previous poster mentioned that FCPS has approximately a 30% acceptance rate. Way more than 5.

They mean that the top 5% is about 25 kids. The top 5% being a typical line in the sand between getting into UVA and not getting in within NOVA schools.

You’re assuming that the entire top 5% of the class applies to UVA, which is definitely not the case anywhere.

It’s probably very close. Even if kids want to attend Ivies, everyone knows those schools are crapshoots. UVA is frequently a backup for even the brightest kids in NOVA.

This, most of the top 5% is going to apply to UVA for no other reason than as a safety.

As I just demonstrated this is not true. Plus what on earth are you talking about? We are talking about how hard it is to get into UVA; nobody but the absolute top student is applying there as a safety. You need to move on to another thread.

I started the UVA vs Georgetown thread. My DS doesn’t want to go to UVA. He is at the top of is class. I know UVA isn’t a safety. It is a target.

He also likes Penn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Cornell. I think he would be disappointed if he only got into UVA.

Well, he should brace himself for the very real possibility of disappointment. And you should too.

There’s a parent on “the college essay” thread who says about their kid:

“His admissions results were not as good as I would have expected going into the process given his basic academic qualifications (3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA, 35 ACT) and solid EC profile).”

Kid was denied in state to UVA and is going to Northeastern

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Why can’t you just name the friggin’ school?

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Good point but there are 6x as many public school kids as private so it’s not going to move the needle that much.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Langley and McLean High definitely have ~50. I think schools like Edison, Justice, Annandale will have only a handful.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Langley and McLean High definitely have ~50. I think schools like Edison, Justice, Annandale will have only a handful.

Looking at Naviance from my kids FCPS HS now, from 2018-2021, 441 acceptances out of 1275 apps. Average 100 a year. That's probably 40-50 a year enrolled.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Langley and McLean High definitely have ~50. I think schools like Edison, Justice, Annandale will have only a handful.

Looking at Naviance from my kids FCPS HS now, from 2018-2021, 441 acceptances out of 1275 apps. Average 100 a year. That's probably 40-50 a year enrolled.

Which high school?

I’m not familiar with Naviance. 100 acceptances from even schools like Langley and McLean seems high.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Langley and McLean High definitely have ~50. I think schools like Edison, Justice, Annandale will have only a handful.

Looking at Naviance from my kids FCPS HS now, from 2018-2021, 441 acceptances out of 1275 apps. Average 100 a year. That's probably 40-50 a year enrolled.

Which high school?

I’m not familiar with Naviance. 100 acceptances from even schools like Langley and McLean seems high.

Oakton. Out of 1275 apps that's 34% acceptance rate. Assume graduating class of 650 that's 15%. Doesn't sound that far off. I'm sure 2018 and 2019 skewed the numbers a little higher.

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Anonymous wrote:In 2021-22, UVA accepted 1320 kids from Fairfax County. Thirty high schools so 44 kids per high school. 656 enrolled so ~22 per high school.

You’re not counting the 34 private high schools in Fairfax (not to mention Fairfax County kids who go to privates in other jurisdictions, like SSSAS). My DC’s private usually has 15-20 kids go to UVA. The number admitted per school is probably more like 15.

Langley and McLean High definitely have ~50. I think schools like Edison, Justice, Annandale will have only a handful.

Looking at Naviance from my kids FCPS HS now, from 2018-2021, 441 acceptances out of 1275 apps. Average 100 a year. That's probably 40-50 a year enrolled.

Which high school?

I’m not familiar with Naviance. 100 acceptances from even schools like Langley and McLean seems high.

Oakton. Out of 1275 apps that's 34% acceptance rate. Assume graduating class of 650 that's 15%. Doesn't sound that far off. I'm sure 2018 and 2019 skewed the numbers a little higher.

I wonder if it is a myth about a student from a weaker school would gain admission with same stats as a stronger school.

We moved from Edison/Lee area to McLean. It sounds like from our friends still at Edison that college admissions was disappointing minus some URMs. McLean had an amazing college list this year and many students (around 30-40 I think) go to UVA.