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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want Dean J’s cute little videos about their holistic approach and how they want to see this and that from a student. I don’t need dean j at all. For in state admissions I want a formula. Kid took these classes, got these grades, got that SAT, then [b][u]guaranteed admission to UVA or WM or Vtech or whatever other VA state school[/u][/b], end of story. Otherwise you are not getting my tax dollars. [/quote]
Sounds like what you really want is a guarantee that your kid gets into UVA.  Here's a cheaper, faster, more practical solution:  open your mindset to seeing success at many VA colleges.  Trust that your kid is capable enough to be successful wherever he or she goes!

It's liberating when you expand the number of acceptable pathways![/quote]+1

There is an admissions guarantee at UVA, but as PP have pointed out, a lot of people won't even consider it worthy of their kid. They list courses and grades needed for guaranteed admission. 
https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/guaranteed-transfer-admission[/quote]
Yes!  Secret is out![/quote]
 It is great there is such an option for kids who need more time to come up to speed academically or who are in a very unfortunate financial/personal position to start a four year college. It is silly to suggest this route to academically high achieving kids.
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You validate that path, but put it down at the same time. It's not for everyone, but it's a smart option if you want a UVA degree and didn't get in.

Anyway...

If OP wanted a guarantee for UVA. There is one. They laid it out on the website.
If OP wanted a guarantee for a state school in Virginia, there pretty much is one. Mary Washington, Radford, and Longwood are usually under-enrolled on May 1.[/quote]

Read the title, OP wanted transparency in the admission process, at UVA and any other VA school. Not the guess work based on some s[b]chev data[/b] or wild assumptions by some posters here. [/quote]

SCHEV is hard data.  Parents on here just don't want to be bothered to read the report.  If OP had bothered, they would know the statistics of last fall's entering class which was 1510/1460/1400 for 75th/50th and 25th percentile for SAT.  A 35/34/32 for ACT. and a GPA of 4.52/4.39 and 4.23 for bottom 25th GPA.  Those are the students who actually showed up, not the ones who got in but choose an Ivy or SLAC instead.  So you need to aim at least for the 75th percentile if coming from NOVA and unhooked.  SCHEV also provides the same data for all prior years so don't listen to the people who say "but that's only the stats of the kids who submitted tests".  Look at the GPA.  SCHEV also breaks down for in-state v OOS, etc.  Plug in any public or private school in Virginia - the data is all here:   https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp.[/quote]

[b]Yes, just keep reiterating the obvious points that you have beaten down to death in many threads. We don’t need schev to figure out there is correlation between the GPA/SAT and admission chances at UVA. There is nothing in schev that can explain why two applicants with identical stats get different outcomes. [/quote][/b]

OP wants transparency.  SCHEV provides that - more so than any other state.  Many parents don't know that.  Look up any public or private school there and you can easily figure out if your child has the stats to feel comfortable on campus.  IT's a terrific tool[/quote]

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