Pissed at UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD got straight up rejected from EA, not even deferred. She's legacy, 1350 and 3.75, 4 year varsity athlete, and part time employee so it was a bit of a shock. More like depressing disappointment.

But..... six of her friends got in EA and only two are going. So, 4 spots just pissed into the wind at her HS. And she has to sit it all out.

It just sucks. I can't help but be irate that some kid from Jersey can go there but my daughter can't

The measly $1000 I donated every year will cease.

Really not surprising. On any level. The least of the unsurprising elements here is that you thought your annual $1K donation and her legacy status sealed the deal.

Hope your girl has a more realistic picture of the world than you do. Best of luck to her.

Or maybe you are just a teenage troll.

[Anonymous]

We have friends who attended there as did my spouse. They donated a lot more each year than you thinking it would help, it didn't and it shouldn't and that $1,000 a year you donated could have grown a lot if invested. Now UCA is just spending it on the kids that got accepted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She had a 1350, why are you surprised? That's embarrassingly low for a top school like UVA

so is the GPA.

OP's entitlement and privilege is showing

OP is profoundly disappointed and is lashing out, so show some grace instead piling on like a stinking pile of dog sh--. LOTS of states show big time in-state preference to the premier state schools. UVA does not. And it has to sting (and my DC is not applying there). VA states, like UVA, Tech, W&M, should absolutely place a priority on residency, imo. THey'd do it w/o sacrificing their brand, as well. It sucks they don't but places like NC do.

This is not true. UVA was 100% more generous in admissions to VA residents over DC/MD residents for applicants from our highly competitive DC private.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got straight up rejected from EA, not even deferred. She's legacy, 1350 and 3.75, 4 year varsity athlete, and part time employee so it was a bit of a shock. More like depressing disappointment.

But..... six of her friends got in EA and only two are going. So, 4 spots just pissed into the wind at her HS. And she has to sit it all out.

It just sucks. I can't help but be irate that some kid from Jersey can go there but my daughter can't

The measly $1000 I donated every year will cease.

I'm very sorry about your disappointment but my DC with much higher stats was deferred last year and never got off the WL. Personally, I am not surprised by your DC's result.

Try transferring in next year?

I was coming here to say this. Your expectations were out of line given her stats. Being a legacy is not an entitlement. Her #s are too low.

I know kids with much higher stats who were waitlisted this year, including legacies!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD got straight up rejected from EA, not even deferred. She's legacy, 1350 and 3.75, 4 year varsity athlete, and part time employee so it was a bit of a shock. More like depressing disappointment.

But..... six of her friends got in EA and only two are going. So, 4 spots just pissed into the wind at her HS. And she has to sit it all out.

It just sucks. I can't help but be irate that some kid from Jersey can go there but my daughter can't

The measly $1000 I donated every year will cease.

To the OP - You know that admissions accounts for this, right? They didn't shoot 4 dudd shots to the wind. When they accepted 6, they didn't think all 6 would come (and don't have room for all 6 to come!) - they likely expected only 2 would come. They chose the 6 kids they'd like to offer that option....other applicants didn't make the cut. If they had widened the range of applicants, they'd end up with over enrollment.

[Anonymous]

OP, have your DD work hard her next year or two and transfer. I know a couple kids who had mediocre hs stats, spent a couple years killing it at other VA schools and then transferred and will graduate with "The UVA diploma."

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Anonymous wrote:She had a 1350, why are you surprised? That's embarrassingly low for a top school like UVA

so is the GPA.

OP's entitlement and privilege is showing

OP is profoundly disappointed and is lashing out, so show some grace instead piling on like a stinking pile of dog sh--. LOTS of states show big time in-state preference to the premier state schools. UVA does not. And it has to sting (and my DC is not applying there). VA states, like UVA, Tech, W&M, should absolutely place a priority on residency, imo. THey'd do it w/o sacrificing their brand, as well. It sucks they don't but places like NC do.

This is not true. UVA was 100% more generous in admissions to VA residents over DC/MD residents for applicants from our highly competitive DC private.

Yeah, if they were really in tune with UVA, they'd already know this. The in-state and out of state acceptance rates are easy to find. I think OP is just a kid trying to stir the pot here.

[Anonymous]

OP, I know it hurts but your kid isn't entitled to admission anywhere. Legacy preference has been going away...haven't you been reading the news? I think that's a good thing to get rid of, personally. No one should be getting into any college merely because a parent went there.

[Anonymous]

OP, please understand that the kids who got accepted and decided against going to UVA are not slots that could otherwise be taken up by your kid. The schools over-accept knowing that not everyone will choose that school. Your kid's stats did not meet the statistical threshold (probably by a lot according to UVA standards).

I believe that your kid will go on to a school that is a good fit, and can still be happy and successful. Take a moment to be pissed, then pick back up and forge into positive territory with another school.

Wishing you well!

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Troll lol

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UVA isn't even a good school. You should've donated your money somewhere else

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Anonymous wrote:She had a 1350, why are you surprised? That's embarrassingly low for a top school like UVA

so is the GPA.

OP's entitlement and privilege is showing

OP is profoundly disappointed and is lashing out, so show some grace instead piling on like a stinking pile of dog sh--. LOTS of states show big time in-state preference to the premier state schools. UVA does not. And it has to sting (and my DC is not applying there). VA states, like UVA, Tech, W&M, should absolutely place a priority on residency, imo. THey'd do it w/o sacrificing their brand, as well. It sucks they don't but places like NC do.

This is not true. UVA was 100% more generous in admissions to VA residents over DC/MD residents for applicants from our highly competitive DC private.

You don't understand what PP is trying to say. . UVA accepts around 32% OOS and international. That's a higher amount than some of the other top public systems, like the UC system (trying to limits OOS and International to only 10% of class because parents and voters out there got angry they couldn't get into UCLA and Berkeley), Texas, capped at top 10% of high school class; UNC going to limiting OOS to 10%, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD got straight up rejected from EA, not even deferred. She's legacy, 1350 and 3.75, 4 year varsity athlete, and part time employee so it was a bit of a shock. More like depressing disappointment.

But..... six of her friends got in EA and only two are going. So, 4 spots just pissed into the wind at her HS. And she has to sit it all out.

It just sucks. I can't help but be irate that some kid from Jersey can go there but my daughter can't

The measly $1000 I donated every year will cease.

The kid from Hersey has better stats.

Even a 4.0 unweighted 1600 SAT kid from NJ still has the stench of NJ on him.

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But he's smart and will succeed

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Anonymous wrote:She had a 1350, why are you surprised? That's embarrassingly low for a top school like UVA

so is the GPA.

OP's entitlement and privilege is showing

OP is profoundly disappointed and is lashing out, so show some grace instead piling on like a stinking pile of dog sh--. LOTS of states show big time in-state preference to the premier state schools. UVA does not. And it has to sting (and my DC is not applying there). VA states, like UVA, Tech, W&M, should absolutely place a priority on residency, imo. THey'd do it w/o sacrificing their brand, as well. It sucks they don't but places like NC do.

This is not true. UVA was 100% more generous in admissions to VA residents over DC/MD residents for applicants from our highly competitive DC private.

You don't understand what PP is trying to say. . UVA accepts around 32% OOS and international. That's a higher amount than some of the other top public systems, like the UC system (trying to limits OOS and International to only 10% of class because parents and voters out there got angry they couldn't get into UCLA and Berkeley), Texas, capped at top 10% of high school class; UNC going to limiting OOS to 10%, etc.

You are an absolute moron. UVA does not accept 32% of out of state applicants. It limits out of state ENROLLMENT to 32%, and to do that it only accepts about 12% out of state applicants because they get a whole lot of out of state applicants. Why are people so stupid?