UVA EA is out!!!!

[Anonymous]

Sorry, my oldest is a sophomore so I’m just learning how this works. They admitted over 6000 early for about 3700 spots. I understand expecting a low yield but that still doesn’t leave much room for Regukar decision candidates.

[Anonymous]

Any insight into how EA deferrals get accepted in the RD round?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

Curious, PP--did the high school have many students who applied to UVA?

Not commenting or snarling, genuinely trying to figure out the alchemy.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, supposed to be not "snarking"! Sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

Curious, PP--did the high school have many students who applied to UVA?

Not commenting or snarling, genuinely trying to figure out the alchemy.

If you don't mind saying, what county? FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

Students are evaluated within the context of his school. So if he's one of relatively few taking rigorous courses and doing well he will have a better chance of admission than a student taking the exact same courseload with the same stats at a school where a larger percentage of the students are equally strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

Students are evaluated within the context of his school. So if he's one of relatively few taking rigorous courses and doing well he will have a better chance of admission than a student taking the exact same courseload with the same stats at a school where a larger percentage of the students are equally strong.

+1. Another example would be if he were at Langley or Mclean (or TJ), which are "high performing high schools", the competition for the UVA slots is fierce.

[Anonymous]

I don't know about you, but I'm just amazed at how good these applicants are on collegeconfidential. There's no way my current UVA kid (senior) would get in today compared to this:

MathMomGA
MathMomGA
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Posts: 2
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Today at 10:16 pm
My DD:

EARLY ACTION DECISION: ACCEPTED!
Planned Major/ College: Double major in Biochem & French, Arts and Sciences

Residency: OOS (GA)
SAT/ACT: 1540 SAT, 36 (36, 36, 36, 36) ACT, both in 1 sitting
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry (800), Math II (800), US History (800)
AP: 16 APs - AP Bio (5), AP Human (5), AP World (5), AP Lang (5), AP Chem (5), APUSH (5), AP Gov (5), AP Calc B/C (5), AP Lit, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Physics 1, AP Stat, AP French, AP Comp Gov
GPA- 3.98 unweighted, 4.68 weighted
Rank: N/A, but received GA Certificate of Merit (Top 5%)
Ethnicity: Mixed race (White/Asian)
Gender: Female
Extras/ Volunteer Work/ Talents/ Jobs- Captain of HS Quiz Bowl team, Captain of Swim and Dive Team, 4-year letterman, club swimming, 200+ service hours, teaching French to elementary schoolers, Student Leadership (2 year program), Secretary of State Student Ambassadors (won statewide competition), lots of honor societies, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, 1st Place at Nationals in Journalism (FBLA), interned with congressional campaign, interned at small investment company, coaching/ participating in summer swim, paid and peer tutoring

Demonstration of Good Character- Very involved in political activism, good amount of peer tutoring

Any hooks? Girl in STEM, maybe

Thoughts on why you received that decision: My daughter put a lot of effort into writing her essays.

Congrats to everyone else who got accepted! And good luck to everyone who got deferred!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, my oldest is a sophomore so I’m just learning how this works. They admitted over 6000 early for about 3700 spots. I understand expecting a low yield but that still doesn’t leave much room for Regu[l]ar decision candidates.

Yup. Over the past few years it has looked as if regular, non-early, applicants to the top 50 or so undergraduate schools are basically out in the cold. Huge numbers of applicants are admitted through early programs, whether binding-decision or non-binding-action. Huge chunks of the class expressly commit early or come pretty close and so 75% of the applicants are left to compete for a small slice of remaining slots. If we had it to do all over again ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, my oldest is a sophomore so I’m just learning how this works. They admitted over 6000 early for about 3700 spots. I understand expecting a low yield but that still doesn’t leave much room for Regukar decision candidates. [/quote]


Dear sophomore parent - in my humble experience (now two kids, and last time through, two years ago), the entire game is now played out at the EA, ED, SCEA point. Both my children got into all their schools at that point. Both they and their friends were generally denied at RD but admittedly were going for Ivy schools at that point. If you can, front load the applications as much as you can to EA. Schools cherry pick at that point and tend to front load, especially if they think the student will actually show up (thereby increasing their yield percentage). Learn the differences between EA, ED, SCEA and what percentages each schools takes from those groups. Watch, in particular, those schools trying to increase their yield percentages by using ED1 and ED 2 (Univ of Chicago, Wash. & Lee, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, a third generation legacy with a 1560 SAT and a weighted 4.3, science olympiad, 6 IB classes, etc. was deferred.

I hope this is a troll because it would be depressing for DC in RD if not!

No, not a troll, I'm reading it right off of Collegeconfidential: UVA EA class decisions only 2013.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: doesn’t everyone get straight ‘As’ these days?

Uh, no. Not at all.

[Anonymous]

Crazy numbers this year. https://news.virginia.edu/content/decision-day-part-1-uva-releases-early-action-decisions

EA Applications - 25,161 (17% increase)
EA Acceptance - 6,550 (26% down from 27.7%)

Total EA/RD Applications - 40,804 (10% increase)

OOS Acceptance Rate - 19.3% down from 21.4%

Enrollment Target - 3,750

UVA typically accepts around 10,000 each year. Based on the 6,550 EA acceptances this only leaves 3,450 spots for the RD and deferrals. Not sure how many were deferred from the EA round.