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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So sorry!  I hope he has other good options.  What else does he have to offer aside from grades?  ECs?  Leadership?  What is the major?  If it is CS that could explain it since everyone wants CS.[/quote]

This is a big part of it. Grades and class rank are not the package. No one can say if he was a strong applicant. Did he: work, take rigorous classes, have leadership and community service, how were the essays, varied and long term ECs, etc. [/quote]

THIS. Only two PPs above have made this point while everyone else (only a few repeat posters, I suspect) is obsessing over GPA and nothing else. Parents on this forum often don't want to believe that their kid's ECs and essays actually might tip the scales, but it's true. So many kids have similar fantastic-sounding GPAs and test scores, but guess what? Colleges can and do still look at the rest of the application. Even for white boys from affluent 'burbs.[/quote].

Yep.  My white UMC son “only” has a 4.2 weighted GPA, 4.0 unweighted.  At a NOVA public.  1580 SAT. All 5s on APS.  Decent ECs that show leadership, governors’ school last summer.  For him I think it came down to ECs, essays and recommendations.  In at UVA (EA) and William and Mary.  So many kids have those same GPA and stats - the other stuff has to set them apart somehow.   [/quote]

Great that your son got into UVA - congratulations!  But if he had a 4.0 unweighted (i.e., nothing less than an A in every course taken) but only a 4.2 weighted GPA, that means he took very few AP courses, or else his weighted GPA would be much higher.  And that's surprising, because UVA wants to see highest rigor in all disciplines (i.e., LOTS of AP courses, absent some hook. [/quote]

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