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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10-12 APs?! Jeez. Sounds impossible to get in.[/quote]

Nah.  My kid hit that pretty easily, without being some overstressed, study at midnight, brilliant academic rockstar.

10: World History and Human Geo
11: APUSH, European, English Lang,  Latin
12:  Macro, Micro, English Lit, US Gov, Comp Gov

That’s 11. Clearly a humanities kid. Not doing anything special at her HS— in fact, stood out in her class for avoiding AP STEM classes (took non-AP Calc) and piling on the humanities.  The key for her was going for literally every AP in her area of interest and not struggling for a year (maybe with tutoring) to pull out a kinda okay grade in math or science.

34 ACT, which hits Langley’s media

Attending WM. Did not apply to UVA. [/quote]

WM is much, much easier to get into. [/quote]

Not in the last couple of years. Our HS had 4.3+/1500s locked out last year. RD admission was a bloodbath— and that’s looking at the top 10-15% of the class. They will take different kids though. UVA wants the APs across all five core subjects, cares more aBout GPA than test scores and doesn’t cut ED much of a break.  WM really likes ED applicants considers test scores more (or did pre-COVID) and likes the the interesting, pointy kids like PP who went very deep In some areas and less so in another.  Different schools, different admissions philosophies.

I know ED apps to WM were up 25% this year over last.  So it’s going to be another tough year for admissions.

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The fact that WM is selective does not mean it is as selective as UVA. [/quote]

Okay. UVA wins. Grand Pooh nah school of the World. But if it takes 11 APs to get into WM, seems like 10-12 is low for UVA. Probably more like 14.   And if 4.3/1500s are bEIng rejected, from WM, you woUld need 4.4-4.5 for UVA. Yes?[/quote]

Yes, it is statistically more difficult to get into UVAz the 75th percentile of enrolled students last year had a 4.53 gpa, ACT of 34 and sat of 1520. That’s the stats for enrolled, not admitted students (stats of admitted are higher -some students pick Ivies or SLACs over UVA). W&Ms stats are slightly lower across the board [/quote]

[b]At the 75th percentile, both W&M and UVA were at 1520 for SAT and 34 for ACT last year[/b].  GPA was 4.53 at UVA and 4.51 at  W&M.[/quote]

OK, Two can play the game of selective statistics  While those two SAT and ACT figures are the same, W&M comes under UVA in five other categories:  UVA median GPA for enrolled students was a 4.40 and a 4.33 for W&M.  UVA bottom 25th percentile was a 4.24 and a 4.15 for W&M.  UVA median SAT was a 1470 and W&M had a 1460 . The bottom 25th percentile had a 1400 at UVA and a 1375 at W&M.  And of course GPA at the 75th percentile is a 4.53 and 4.52 at W&M.[/quote]

The PP had cited 75th percentile for UVA and did not provide for W&M.  Just pointing out they are pretty much the same at the 75th.  
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But you chose only two categories out of nine. The other seven have W&M below UVA, statistically. [b]This goes to a PPs comment that it is more difficult to get into W&M.[/b] It is not[/quote]

No PP said that.  You made that up.
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