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Nope. It's 27% for this year.  And you try telling your public high school counselor that you want the school's support (records, letters of recommendation, statistics, push for your kid) if your child is only an A- students.  All high schools, public and private, self-select which students are allowed to apply to UVA.  There was no way McLean High school was going to help my A-student get into UVA.  So we discussed other options.  http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2017/03/uva-acceptance-rates-drop-for-regular-admission-decisions.  Also the average GPA to get into UVA is now 4.26 and average ACT scores are 31-34.  And 90% of class of 2021 is in the top 10% of their class.  94% of the class of 2020 was in the top 10% of their class.  You cannot compare admit figures for UVA (and UCLA and Berkeley for that matter) to rates at SLACs which receive a very different pool of candidate.[/quote]

Can you please help me and explain? I thought the student applies to which ever college they want to attend. I don't understand why the student needs the counselor's approval to apply to UVA. This is shocking news to me. My DC is a freshman so we are new to this but I have been reading this forum to learn about financial help. Your experience leaves me perplexed and rather annoyed with McLean High School.[/quote]

Nope.  The in state acceptance rate is a lot higher than that.  Out of state applicants have to be amazing.  In state applicants have to be very good.[/quote]

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