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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way a kid gets into Amherst or Williams and rejected from UVa or WM. Either that poster is a troll or has confused Amherst with UMass Amherst and confused Williams with Hobart & William Smith College.

[b]Amherst’s and Williams’ acceptance rates are 14-15%. UVa’s is 27% and WM is 34%. [/quote][/b]

You can't compare public university acceptance rates to privates.  They serve entirely different populations and have different missions.[/quote]

Yes I can!!! All 4 of these schools are looking for the best of the best. They are very difficult to get into, in state or out of state. Amherst and Williams are more difficult to get into. The average SAT & ACT scores are higher than UVa and WM. Therefore it makes no sense that a student would get into both Amherst and Williams, but not UVa or WM. [/quote]

But acceptance rate and OOS acceptances rates vary tremendously.  The equivalent comparison is really more OOS rates, which I do not know for UVA or WM. DD had FSU as a match as was rejected (well, can do one semester CC then on campus).  In 2017 the acceptance rate was 49%, this year it was 33% but the OOS, which we are, is 19% for 2019.  So even though she is above 75% in test score and within 25-75% in GPA with great ECs, it was actually more predictable that she did not get in than would otherwise seem if we had looked at OOS acceptance instead of total acceptance.  Just saying.  Admissions are weird, never expected kid with over 1400 on SATs to get rejected from FSU....[/quote]

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