Reply to UVA out Friday night

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "UVA out Friday night"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The public school applicants in Virginia are pre-screened by their public high school counselors and directed to the best fit schools in the Commonwealth. The counselors write letters for these schools and check the "most rigorous" box (yes it still exists). A B student is not going to get the support of their counselor to apply to UVA. The counselor might say "fine" to the parents who want to apply to a private slac like Swarthmore but if the parents and child suggest a university that is not feasible for the student, the counselor is supposed to direct them to suitable places to apply. The counselor has the vast resources of Naviance and SCHEV to show the parents that their kid doesn't have a change. So the applicant pool to UVA is self-selecting. Those applying know they need a 4.47-4.52 and a 35 ACT. We were told by the counslor our child was not a candidate for UVA. She wasn't. So we applied to Virginia schools that made sense for her.[/quote]

Thank you PP. Many of us have long suspected this. Thanks for putting it into words.[/quote]
Don’t really understand this comment. What is so earth shattering that counselors tell kids that they may not have a shot at a certain school? That being said, they don’t prevent someone from applying. In our LCPS  HS of 400 had 70 kids apply to UVA last year and about 12 got on. Obviously a lot of under qualified kids applied despite being told it was reach. Happens every year.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics