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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because you asked and Naviance 2019 loaded:

Don’t flame if my math is wrong somewhere. I did it on the back of a sheet of paper.

In state applied/ accepted/ attending:
UVA: 333/152/53. (48% admit rate and In line with prior years)
WM: 189/153/40 (80% admit rate and in line with prior years)
VT:  99/71/21  (the huge surprise. Normally 200-250 kids apply.  But only low 20s attend each year.  So their attend number stayed stable).

Also:

GMU 17
VCU. 9 (their guaranteed admit med school program is popular at TJ)

So: 114 to UVA/WM/VT and 142 in state (although I didn’t pull every state school, no one to CNU)

Pitt: 116/113/25. Making it the 3rd most popular school and this the first year more kids applied to Pitt than VT and more kids attend Pitt than VT.  They give amazing merit aid to TJ kids, the counselors love them, and rolling admissions).

39 to Ivys:
Cornell topping the list at 15 (it’s always high, b/c engineering)
8 to Harvard
5 to Yale
4 to Princeton
2 to Columbia
1 to Dartmouth
0 to Brown

29 to Almost Ivy’s:
8 to MIT
1 to Cal Tech
12 to Chicago, out of 15 accepted (!!!— that’s a huge number for a non-engineering/CS school)
4 each to Stanford and Duke

75 to the T10 Engineering schools not already listed:
17 to Michigan
6 to GT
10 to Berkeley 
15 to CMU
13 to UI-CU
10 to Purdue
4 to UT Austin

14 total to the other T20 National Us not already listed put together, with 1-2 per school, except 3 to UCLA and 4 to WashU

2 to Williams.  I didn’t pullall of the top SLACs, but kids were admitted to, but are not attending Amherst, Swarthmore, and Davidson.

Other places I spot checked b/c I know kids going: Grinnell (1), Kenyon (1), CWRU (3), Ohio State (2), Penn State (6)

So that’s 339 of the 425.  The rest are likely to be 1-2 students each to T50 schools, a few SLACs, and T10-T20 engineering.  Probably at least 10-12 at other UCs combined, although I didn’t pull each one.

Make of it what you will.  I’m shocked that VT went from 243 apps in 2018 to 99 in 2019.  And had fewer students enroll than Pitt for the first time.  And had fewer students apply than Pitt, Michigan or GT.  Especially in a year when VT overenrolled. What I’m hearing (based on a sample size of about 4) is that kids aren’t filling out the Coalition app and writing the extra essays unless they really want VT.  They are using Pitt as their safety instead.

Anyway, looks like a great year to me. But, have at it.

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The Naviance seems kind of unbelievable.  Only 99 applying to VT?  That would be a HUGE change from prior years for one year.   I wonder if there is a data issue.

You also say UVA admit rate is in line with prior years, but that is a significantly lower rate than prior years.  It used to be quite high if you looked at the PDF the school produces.  I wonder if this is a reflection of increased UVA selectivity, or a change in their admit strategy for TJ (or both).  The other data point is the number going to UVA and VT are down considerably in 2019.  [/quote]

Many TJ kids practically "beg" the top 15% kids not to apply to UVA because vast majority of them will very likely just end up getting accepted and not matriculating at UVA. Other TJ kids actually frown upon top 10% kids applying to UVA thinking they just take the limited (possibly quota) admission slots. My TJ kid decided not to apply to UVA since he knew he was probably not going to attend UVA.[/quote]

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