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[quote=Anonymous][QUOTE]Of the Naviance chart doesn't support your child's candidacy and the guidance counselor suggests other Virginia Schools that's a good indication the public high school will not support your candidacy to UVA, meaning letters of recommendation will be lukewarm and the 50 or 60 other kids who have the 4.0++ will get preferential treatment. [/QUOTE]Let me explain how Naviance works. Teachers upload ONE letter. It goes to all of the schools. They don't write a "lukewarm" letter for one college and then a stronger one for another. It's one letter. Your kid's counselor either didn't explain this or you never asked.

[QUOTE]Remember that UVA wants to lower its yield no. for purposes of the rating services.  So you can never trust with precision what the admissions officer is saying.  The role of the admissions officer (in today's world of crazy ratings) is to get your child to apply.  So they can reject them.  So the school's selectivity and yield numbers drop.[QUOTE]
[b]The fact that you don't know what yield is shows that you should not be telling anyone how admissions works.[/b] High yield is a good thing. No one wants yield to go down.

Admissions at public schools tell you who is competitive for admission. They are underpaid and overworked. They aren't interested in more applications.

[QUOTE]Contrary to what some think, you now need higher and better stats as an in-state student than OOS. [/QUOTE]
I saw the links that proved the opposite. I also so the link where they say the top 10% stat only includes the high schools that sent them rank info, which FCPS does not.

Maybe go back to College Confidential.

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