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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RD rejected after deferral EA.  Kids with similar stats in.  In at top 15 SLAC with merit so would have probably taken that anyway as cost becomes similar and smaller.  In at top 40 US News National school.  Waiting on Ivy Day (four of them) and some top 30 US News schools.  [/quote]You have to assume that instate, only students with top stats even bother applying. They talk a lot about essays and recommendations being part of their deciding factors. [/quote]

K[b]id was top stats top ECs.  Others with similar stats got in.  Were also double legacy.  [/quote][/b]

I'm sorry.  I know a lot of legacy families (one a triple legacy family who had given big bucks) with super high stat kids that didn't get in.  The problem is that there are only so many spaces at UVA, as you know.  The new President is ramping up for first-generation kids (I don't agree with that, even though I was personally one when it was not trending) and has already announced an increase in number of acceptances to first generation students for next fall.  SAme with low-income.  Same with BlueRidge Scholarships. Same with Questbridge, athletes, URM, specially talented musicians, students from all 53 states and territories, 71 countries, and those kids whose dad's can give $1M so whose files are marked marked "development cases".  The list goes on, as you know.  I don't think it's right but it identity politics at its worst in our society.  I have a friend who is very bitter about both her kids not getting in.  They are no longer signing over big checks to UVA.[/quote]

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