Reply to Jesuit schools

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Jesuit schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I had middle schoolers in Fairfax County, I'd be trying to find out everything I could about the Virginia State colleges. For VA residents they are a huge bargain and they are excellent starting with UVA, VT and Wm & Mary.

I have to believe that the Fairfax County school systems admissions staff are very good at getting their kids into these schools and have longstanding relationships with them.[/quote]

[b]Getting into UVA is near impossible if you are coming from Fairfax County Public Schools. They want to make sure they have geographical diversity and have kids from all over the Commonwealth enroll, so bright students from FCPS constantly get shut out. I know so many kids who got into Top 25 schools from FCPS and were flat out rejected by UVA.[/b][/quote]

Tell that to the [b]1,071[/b] Fairfax County high school seniors admitted to UVA from the class of 2025.[/quote]

I don’t think PP really means it’s near impossible, more that it’s a crap-shoot. How many other fcps seniors have similar credentials to the 1,000 or so admitted to UVA?  A lot. [/quote]

Bullshit, ahe’s suggesting that it’s harder to get in from Fairfax County than other jurisdictions and that’s total bullshit. For example, I just looked at the city of Petersburg, which is actually pretty large, and it showed that only eight students applied in 2025 yet only two of the eight got in. That’s the same ratio as Fairfax County.  You’d think that with so few applying from that poor city that UVA would take them all, but they’re not. I am tired of the privileged rich people in Fairfax County whining about how much harder they have it, they just plain don’t.

If you want to make these kinds of claims, back them up. That’s all I’m saying. Back them the hell up.[/quote]

But what are the stats of the 2 from Petersburg? They certainly had the best stats of their cohort but I think PP is saying it’s harder from places in NOVA because you can have super high states but not be in the top 10-20 of your class so you’re out of luck at UVA. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics