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[quote=Anonymous]Like any other successful exec, Joan Holden is a politician. She caters to the families who have the power to affect her job. Therefore, kids from involved families with a ton of money (SSSAS legacy all the better), magically get the most out of the school--go figure!

Certainly bright SSSAS students with great grades and good SAT scores will be accepted by UVA as they would be by other schools.

I would ask to see a chart of SAT scores for the entire class before I sent my child here--that would probably illuminate the reasons for a high UVA acceptance rate either way. The 2009 graduating class had more than 50% with a B+ or better average.

The school actually tells students that getting a C at year end in any subject in High School will ruin their chances of getting into a good college and they have a chapel service each quarter to honor the students who have no Cs. Interestingly, many of the students honored each quarter are from very wealthy families and SSSAS legacy families!

Even though SSSAS teachers are loathe to ever recommend tutors for students, be sure to budget lots of tutor money on top of tuition because your child will be competing with kids who see tutors multiple times a week, receive private PSAT and SAT tutoring, and workout with paid athletic trainers from a very early age. Do not believe it if anyone tells you differently. So think very carefully whether the return on your education dollar is maximized by that model.

Also, be aware that students who are lifers also will be placed ahead of those who are not when a choice has to made between students.

All that being said, many of the teachers are truly wonderful and I often wonder what many of them think about the morality of the SSSAS system. If you really have no other choice, and if you have a very thick skin and just want to be sure your child gets an actual education (including the one about it's not what you know but who you know) they can get it here--but at a very high price.

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