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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line:  UVA and W&M affirmatively do not want NOVA applicants or students.  They want NOVA tax revenue, but those of us that live here are poison and are to be avoided.  A GPA barely above a B+ from a school in seven central Virginia counties, together with standardized test scores in roughly the 75+ percentile, is enough for UVA, from that locality.  The NOVA requirements are dramatically higher.  UVA and W&M demand, receive, hold, and expend public funds.  But they do NOT equally accommodate VA resident applicants by any measure.  
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Completely and verifiably UNTRUE.  UVA's class of 2020 has 1130 students from Northern Virginia out of a class of 3720 (source: http://admission.virginia.edu/uva-admission-quotas-northern-virginia).  [b]UVA accepted 224 kids from my D's Northern VA HS last year (TJ).  [/b]

Read this blog from UVA admissions for more info on how UVA selects its student body:  http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/[/quote]

Uh, please.  Even if true, it is TJ STUDENTS!  They were self-selected into four years ago!  You CANNOT compare TJ results to any other public school in NOVA, even FCPS!  Langley and McLean send only a dozen or so out of classes of 500!  This is what NOVA parents are upset about (if you at a TJ parent, then this is not your world).  Only 663 students from Fairfax Country for class of 2020. Just in FCPS there are 33 high schools.  And UVA has to also account for VA residents who are at private day schools in MD and D.C. as well as elite boarding schools.  Sure, if you are at TJ you have a reasonable shot of getting in - put you've already won the sweepstakes four years ago.  If my B+ student at McLean High School wants to apply, forget it. Not going to happen[/quote]

UVA was a safety school for the top TJ kids, not so much for the rest.  124 were rejected last year, 81 decided to attend.  This year 66 decided to attend.  I think the drop off is due to the
changed admissions policy that resulted in http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/one-third-of-tj-freshmen-need-math-science-remediation/article/623696

These kids are now graduating.[/quote]

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