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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year had UVA (49), W&M (26), VA Tech (7), VCU (10), GMU (10).
I think the middle of the road kids get shut out at UVA and VA Tech and go to OOS schools - Purdue, UIUC, Michigan etc[/quote]

So you are saying VT only had 7 because they largely didn't admit TJ students?[/quote]

This is a big change from a generation ago. I'm a late-90s TJ grad and my memory is that about 100 people went to UVA, a quarter of the class. Another huge chunk went to VT too. I wonder when the UVa numbers dropped?[/quote]

2012 was UVA 105, W&M 55, VT 25.  2022 was UVA 49, W&M 26, VT 7.  So -53%, -53%, and -72% respectively over 10 years.[/quote]

The corrupt old admission system and really caused a drop in the quality of students over that decade.[/quote]

This isn't QUITE true but there's a shred of truth in it.

What did happen is that, as time went by and as the old admissions process was studied further and further by test-prep companies like Curie, Kate Dalby, OptimalTJPrep, and others, those entities were able to offer parents the ability to hack the process for a fee. Pay thousands of dollars to these companies and they will give you the tools to make your relatively workaday student appear to be a STEM superstar through test prep, essay work, and knowing the right activities to place your child in.

As a consequence, you saw a homogenization of the TJ population to the point where a greater and greater number of students were more and more similar in their academic profiles. Elite universities only need but a certain number of that type of student every year, and so the TJ population essentially was engaged in a rat-race where everyone was competing with each other for an increasingly limited number of spaces when other spaces were easily available.[/quote]

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