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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA has guaranteed transfer for students who attend community college and do well in classes.

This seems like a low-stress and lower cost way to earn a UVA degree, vs going into contortions to get a UVA first-year admit or going to a less preferred 4-year university.

Who has been there, done that? How are the tradeoffs?

Even if it's not for you, why isn't UVA flooded with people going this route? It's looks like an amazing  side-door option. Is succeeding in community college harder than a UVA-wannago expects? 
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I teach at Nova and it is a great program,[b] but UVA has many conditions in place[/b] that the other guaranteed transfers do not have. This means there is a lot of quality control, but it is difficult.[/quote]

THis.  The community college student has to know the required courses (mostly core, not electives) that need to be taken during the two years and the GPA required.  A lot of the students don't pay attention and discover too late that they don't have the minimums.  Every four year public in VA has its own set of minimums.  Not every community college counselor has them all memorized so the student has to pay attention.[/quote]
I’m looking at this right now. Seems pretty straightforward. It lists credits in several subjects and grade requirement. [/quote]

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