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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you not believe it OP? Schools value geographic diversity.[/quote]

Let say student A (Langley HS high performance school) and student B (Annandale HS low performance school) with identical GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, same ECs.  There is a very good chance that student B will get accepted to UVA while student A will get rejected.[/quote]

If Student A attends Annandale, it's less likely they will end up with similar statistics and accomplishments by senior year.  That's why parents pay a premium for Langley and pupil place their kids out of Annandale in large numbers.[/quote]

Where are you getting this from?  The curriculum is the same across all of the neighborhood high schools.  There are plenty of kids at every one of them with lots of APs and high test scores.  You’re just being a snob. [/quote]

Mean SAT scores are much lower at Annandale than Langley/McLean. Not saying there aren’t high stats kids at Annandale, but there are definitely fewer of them making admission more likely. (I think the same argument would apply to TJ in comparison to Langley/McLean.)

https://www.fcps.edu/news/fairfax-county-sat-outcomes-stay-strong-despite-pandemic-testing-challenges
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UVA has always placed more emphasis on grades and course selection than test scores.  My UMC blond white kid got in with an SAT score in the mid 1200s, which at that time (not too long ago) was more than 100 points below the school’s average, from a NOVA public with a very high GPA.  not that long ago.  [/quote]

This is still true and whenever I say this, people tell me I'm lying. My DS from a NoVa public got into UVA with a 1380 but top 2% of his class.  They do weight the grades more, which they should honestly as it represents a longer stretch of time than one or two days of SAT testing.  Posters here have told me they think he should not have gotten in, but yet he did and he currently has a 4.0 as a second year so clearly UVA made the right decision to bet on his success there even if his SAT was on the lower side.   [/quote]

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