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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA can't literally figure it out, and they cannot report it as a fact if they are using self-serving estimates. They can only report that data for students from schools that rank.

If you think about it, high-achieving high schools that send many students to top colleges have no incentive to rank students, whereas schools that place fewer students at top colleges can use the ranking system to focus attention more sharply on their best students. So what the 93% statistic is probably telling you is that if you are coming from a weaker school you have to be in the top 10%. [/quote]

And from a "better" school maybe you can sneak in from the top 11%.[/quote]

My kids just went through the process in the last couple of years (not from VA), and I can tell you that the kids that went to UVA from their school were not in the top 10%, in some cases not even top 25%. There is a huge level of variation across schools and experiences out there ....[/quote]

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