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[quote=Anonymous][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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No need.  Kids are both at UVA.  Yes, I hit send before I could correct the "yield" comment.  But my point still stands that college admissions directors are going to encourage any and all to apply because they want the number of applications to increase so as to drive down the selectivity percentage and improve the yield stats solely for reporting purposes to USN&WR and Princeton Review, etc.  If you don't believe that your publicly paid high school counselor isn't trying to direct the right public students to UVA, VA Tech, W & Mary, etc., then there's no point in talking to you.  It also happens at the privates.  The high school college counselors have long-standing reputations and relations with public universities and privates.  They don't want to look foolish by suggesting a student who doesn't have the right record.  There are many ways of conveying this information.  Long after you and your child is gone, that Langley or McLean college counselor will still be there, still ingratiating themselves to the colleges in the hopes of moving on to a better paying gig at a private and then ultimately go into business for themselves and bring in the big bucks.  Like Nina Marks.  it's all one big fat happy industry.  There's a lot of great books out now on how to play the game.  Read College Confidential every day.[/quote]

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