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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From TJ: EA - Deferred; RD - 4.45 / 1580, excellent ECs - Waitlisted :([/quote]

4.45 is high but not top10-15% at TJ, plus there were likely issues with coursework. UVa cares a lot about what courses are taken compared to what is offered at the school. 1580 with a choice to avoid even one of the harder courses will be judged harsher than a 1450 with the same coursework and GPA. [/quote]

This was with very hard courses. AI 1 and 2; Computer Vision 1 and 2; Neuroscience etc
I guess they felt he won't accept so thought they would give it to someone who accepts. 
UVA was not our top choice and somehow they sense it after seeing a million applications.[/quote]

I think it is really unfair to kids at TJ and, to a lesser extent, kids at McLean, Langley, and others. But it is not yield protection. State schools don't do that - period. How do I know? For one thing common sense. There are many people, my own son included, who will choose UVA over an Ivy simply because of the cost. And second, because I have seen the Naviance at McLean and there is an upper corner that is a sea of green; as you go down or left there start to be wait-list diamonds; as you leep going down and left it starts to be a mix and so on. It is crazy but 4.45 probably isn't in the sea of green at TJ, it is in the mixed part.

If you want to see what yield protection looks like, check out the Naviance for BU. [/quote]

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