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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What these tell me is that a ton of kids at W-L and Yorktown apply where they shouldn’t bother. Look at the UVA numbers and compare that to the size of the class. Some of those kids were never remotely good enough and wasted their money.[/quote]

Nope.  It's that they are in a pool of lots and lots of kids who are equally qualified.  Many of these kids who were rejected likely would have been accepted had they attended Podunk HS in rural Virginia, where they might have been a big fish instead of being one of many many little fish in the Arlington schools.  This is the downside of a good school system, and the incredibly negative impact of megaschools.  UVA is only going to accept just so many kids from a given school.  The larger the student body, the less chance your child has of being one of those.  [/quote]

Agree with first poster above, having had 3 DCs apply to Uva and 2 accepted from W-L.  UVA consistently accepts HS students who are in the top 10% of their class.  Anyone who pays attention to UVa admissions should know this; it is not a secret.  Yet, based on enrollment numbers at W-L and Yorktown as of June 2019, 30% of W-L students applied to UVa and 35% of Yorktown students applied to UVa. That means a significant amount of those applicants did not have much of a chance of acceptance.  There is a pretty big difference at both W-L and Yorktown between top 10% and top 30%.  Perhaps someone graduating from W-L in the top 30% would have been in the top 10% at "Podunk HS in rural Virginia" and had a better chance of acceptance but that's not how admission to UVa generally works.  The comment that "UVa is only going to accept just so many kids from a given school"  is not true.  More accurate is UVa is only going to accept kids in the top 10% of any given school.  [/quote]

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