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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad that kids are branching out at UVA.  It may be a plus that they like their high school friends and want to keep hanging out with them. No need to get so defensive there Hoos.  [/quote]

No one is being defensive.   Just pointing out that, [b]with the possible exception of TJ[/b], Virginia public high schools aren't sending whole hordes of friends off to UVA together.  Admissions are too competitive.  In my case, two daughters went to UVA but none of their close friends got in.  [/quote]

TJ is about 2% or less of UVA and W&M undergraduate enrollment.  That isn't that big of a concentration from one school.  And some of the high schools are so large that the students that attend may not have even known each other other than in passing.  [/quote]

[b]That's why I said [b]possible[/b] exception.  But c'mon, if 100+ kids from the same high school go to the same college chances are there are good friends among them.[/quote][/b]

Name one single high school that sends (actually sends) 100 students to UVA.  You can't do it.  Even Langley and McLean send only a few - they might have a larger aount accepted but that's not the same and entering.  The very top students in VA use UVA as a backup in case they don't get into Ivy (case in point my DD).  Even in her mega public high school only six actually showed up at UVA.  The myth of 13th year of high school is totally a myth by those who couldn't get iin.  In my DS's school, only two got into UVA and both went. They never have seen each other since the first year.[/quote]

McLean consistently has over 50 kids admitted to UVA are ends up sending about 35.  I’ve heard that’s also the case at South Lakes. So that’s more than a “few.”  PP was probably referring to TJ sending over 100 kids to UVA. Maybe Robinson also did at the peak of its enrollment when it had graduating classes well over 700.

It would be more typical for two kids per year to go to Duke. [/quote]

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