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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm guessing my rising senior is in the top 5% FCPS HS with his only "blemish" being an A- in Honors Algebra in 7th grade, but since the school doesn't rank, I can only guess. SAT is in excess of 75th. Unfortunately the dummy has absolutely no interest in UVA. I cant get a straight answer. No issue with applying to W&M, Tech and VCU (along with schools up North).[/quote]Having no interest in UVa may lead him to a better marriage, truer friends, and enriched cultural experiences.  Some Echols scholars at UVa end up bigoted, estranged from formerly beloved dads, stepping on all their friends and crying about loneliness, bitterly in a non-amicable divorce, or hiring a fake sibling for their wedding.  UVa students do have it all on paper though and in-state bang for the buck is great.

A huge part of the problem is the honor committee is constantly rewarding lying, stealing, and academic "advantages" such as bullying someone out of office hours or taking their backpack during non 40-minute signed honor agreements.  They completely condone EVERYTHING for "favored" students with a "seriousness" clause.  They also teach "Black bus stop" and knowing who to pick on with C-graded curves at 96% correctness for getting to keep your major or get a senior research project.

What kind of parent calls their A-student kid "Dummy"?  Would you be more motivated to attend a place where the only way to get people to go is to name call them?  DS may be wise beyond his years.[/quote]

UVA is a specific culture. Slightly Stepford-wife-ish. I kind of like the disassociated reality, utopia of it all but my son found it pretentious- but he's an inventor and intellectual.  I actually still sort of like it for another one of my kids who would play the fake-social game a little better but to be honest, its just pretty and has a good starting salary. We know a lot of kids there and they are not in love with it- it's "ok". I went to a unremarkable school and loved it so much, still do- was lucky to be more successful than we imagined when we were young and now that school is a beneficiary of our charitable gift fund. Makes me wonder what the hell I am doing pushing my kid to ivies.[/quote]

Can I just say this times a zillion.

I went to Wellesley instead of UVA (grew up in FCPS) and while I applied to UVA/Tech/WM like all of the kids in my class, weirdly I got into UVA/Tech but not WM. Which was a bummer since I really found both schools to not be a fit for what I needed -- a small, college experience with a lot of mentoring for women in STEM.

I did attend UVA eventually. I have a PhD and medical degree there. I also taught undergrads and grad students and it is not all that it is cracked up to be in terms of an undergraduate experience that would be called nurturing, particularly for women.  In the 2010's, I saw science advisors guiding women into the nursing undergrad and grad school programs versus medical school or PhD programs for example using insane sexist bullshit that would never have flown where I went to school. And those women did get diverted a lot...so if I were a woman and focused on STEM, I would NOT encourage UVA for undergrad, fwiw. Graduate school is a mess, but the medical school was oddly a better experience compared to my PhD program.[/quote]

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