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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Virginia State Council of Higher Education provides a invaluable stats for both private and public universities and colleges in the Commonwealth. Enter the name of the college hit enter and the statistics for the entering class of 2018 will come up.  These statistics are lower than those for the accepted class because many Virginians use UVA and W&M as safeties to Ivies or SLACs.  So these are the statistics of the students who actually showed up. In the case of UVA, the top 25% of the entering class of 2018 has had a median GPA of 4.48, the 50% median was a 4.33 and the bottom 25% meddian was a 4.16.  Test scores were 1480; 1420; 1330; and ACTs were 34, 32, 30.  If you are not a URM, first-generation, low-income family, athlete, super-contributor legacy, international student or national award winner, you need to be looking at the top 25% category, especially if you are a NoVA student.  In other words, you need to be in at least the top 10% of your class for both UVA and W&M.  You will find the statistics will keep creeping up on you each year that you are in high school.  This is because parents are refusing to pay $75 - $82K a year for SLACs so are increasingly looking to the great value that state schools offer.  http://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp[/quote]

Doesn’t quite explain why those same SLACs are experiencing the same stats creep does it? But hey, just say dumb stuff. Anonymity, right?[/quote]

I[b]t appears that the selectivity of most highly selective schools has crept up over the past 10 years.[/quote][/b]

They are all just copying what the top SLACS do.  They have to do it to cover the increased costs of marketing, admissions personnel, travel, glossy brochures, fancy gyms, mailers, and emails to your kid in order to get your kid to submit an application, any type of application, just so the institutions can reject them thereby driving down their selectivity percentages they can report to USN&WR.   It's all one massive marketing game to climb the ranking of USN&WR.  To compete costs money.[/quote]

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