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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are conflating different tiers of schools here.  There is a difference between admission to a T10 and admission to a T30.  I don’t think people have been saying you need to be something beyond average excellent to get into schools like Michigan, USC or Rice.  And others, like Emory, take more than 30 percent of their ED1 applicants [/quote]

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All attainable for average excellent. Always have been. Just tailor all of those applications and spend weeks on every single one. Do not rush a thing.[/quote]

And UVA. My average excellent kid got into Michigan and UVA early action. But they are OOS for both so might be different for instate kids? [/quote]

Our non-DMV private sees a lot of UVA rejects who get into one of HYPSM.

It’s weird. [/quote]

Mine, out of state, public school, rejected from UVa, but in at HYPSM. I'm curious what it was that led to rejection. His application was pretty strong. [/quote]

What was his weighted GPA and SAT score? Uva is big on weighted Gpa.

We should have applied to a HYPSM but didn’t. [/quote]

Our school doesn't weight, but I think around a 4.3 weighted. 3.98 UW. Is that too low for UVa? 35 ACT. [/quote]

[b]No, not low for UVA. [/b]
Although it’s widely seen that 4.5 is the easiest way to get in.

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Well, it’s BELOW the mean, so how else would you describe it. Unhooked students need to be aiming for the 75thpercentile which is a 4.5. If you go look at the stats given on the recent UVA EA results thread, you’ll see that every single acceptance hit the 75th percentile across the board. [/quote]

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