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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can apply EA everywhere.  You should not do ED in UVA or UMD - because you will get in anyways. No  college is getting swayed for CS/Eng/Math etc because of these credentials.

[b]A good question to ask is - what can any college do for him that UVA (or UMD) cannot.[/b]

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The bolded is what is truly important.  OP has a laundry list of schools that they think are worth paying for but doesn't have deep knowledge of the regions, school environments, or likely employment paths out of these schools.

OP and kid need to stop worrying about ranking and prestige and figure out what kind of career is wanted and where in the US the kid wants to live.  Do some campus tours,  read some faculty bios, sort out which of the applicant's many accomplishments truly made them happy.  Then come back and ask questions about how to get guaranteed acceptances to these schools.[/quote]

I dont care about ranking or prestige, in fact i did not go to a top ranked school, my qustion is that is UVA ED limiting and how hard should I push my kid to do EA. And i already know career paths schools etc, i hire many college grads from both ivy, top public 50s and not. [/quote]

It's not limiting if 1) your kid really wants to go to UVA and 2) the employers/career paths they are interested in are available from there.

It's a nice accomplishment to get a 1600.  But it's not rare in overall terms, taken across class years, and as some have said, given that the SAT may be easier these days.  That seems to be the most unique thing about your candidate, despite his overall high level of academic achievement.  The APs, DEs, etc. are not that differentiating for a kid with a 1600.

This kid will certainly get into other schools.  So the real questions are whether they have valid reasons for wanting UVA and whether it can deliver the desired results.  If that's a decent DMV job, odds are good.  To found a Y-Combinator type startup, they might as well go to California directly.[/quote]

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