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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Georgetown is a lot harder to get in.[b] UVA has lower stats[/b] and all you need is a [b]3.4 from junior college[/b]. It’s a free for all.[/quote]

You are wrong on both counts.  It's very difficult to get into UVA.  You now need to be top 6% of public high school class.  My kid was valedictorian.  Last year the 75th percentile of ENROLLED (not accepted, which is higher) was a 4.48 gpa, 4.34 median and 4.20 for the bottom 25th percentile of the class.  SATs were 1490/1420/1330.  ACT scores were 1490/1420/1330.  But all of that has changed with covid and the only kids getting in are the tippy-top students.  The rest are waitlisted.  Go read UVA ED/EA 2025.  And read the same on college confidential.  Due to covid many families are reassessing their financial prospects and deciding that $80K a year in after tax dollars no longer makes sense for a private school.  Plus students who could not get a test or chose not to are doing hail marys this year at the top schools, [b]so UVA had a 37% increase in applications to almost 50,000 for 3,750 slots.  [/b]968 of those went to ED students.  Of the 28,897 who have applied EA, 6,286 were offered slots.  692 first-generation students were offered admission ED or EA.  Because this year is so bizarre, no one really can assess how many of the 6,286 EA students will accept for the roughly 2,700 slots left after ED.  That's why there is so many applicants going to deferral and ultimately waitlist this year.  On a related thread, someone here calculated there are only "possibly" (depending on return from EA class) a few hundred seats left for 38,000 applicants.

As to transfer, you need a 3.7 from Nova - which is a COLLEGE GPA not a high school GPA.  That is not easy to obtain.  And you need it in certain subjects. Only 30% are accepted and only about 600 show up junior year.  The 3.5 figure is for other categories than unhooked from NOVA.  The guaranteed transfer program is tough and hard to meet with a community college GPA.  Here are the specifics per major.   https://admission.virginia.edu/transfer/guaranteed-transfer-admission.  It's an excellent program that allows some Virginians the chance to go to UVA (or the other virginia colleges) in a financially smart way.

There is nothing similar going on at Georgetown.  Please stop making threads to bash schools[/quote]

That is not correct.  The increase in all applications was 17%.  [b]Also, the VCCS agreement with the College of Arts and Sciences is a 3.4 GPA.[/quote][/b]

You are reading something signed by Teresa Sullivan in November 2013.  She left UVA years ago.  [/quote]

It is still in effect.[/quote]

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