Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?

[Anonymous]

Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?

[Anonymous]

Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

[Anonymous]

If you want in at UVA, go to NVCC and avail yourself of the guaranteed transfer admission process. The criteria are not hard to meet. Secret is getting out, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.

+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.

+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.

Well played.

[Anonymous]

of course. schools look for geographic diversity, including regional diversity within a particular state.

[Anonymous]

By NOVA penalty, do you mean getting stuck going to a school where everybody is from NOVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By NOVA penalty, do you mean getting stuck going to a school where everybody is from NOVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want in at UVA, go to NVCC and avail yourself of the guaranteed transfer admission process. The criteria are not hard to meet. Secret is getting out, though.

Sounds like fun...or not.

[Anonymous]

This is interesting:
http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2016/10/uva-admission-quotas-for-northern.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.

+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.

Uh huh. Amazing how many people on DCUM have a kid who declined TJ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?

What I have seen at McLean HS over the past 6 years is about 10% of the class gets in to both UVA and W&M.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.

Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.

It is by region, not by individual HS. It has been this way for a number of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?

What I have seen at McLean HS over the past 6 years is about 10% of the class gets in to both UVA and W&M.

I don't mean all the student get into both -Just that about 10% get into each.