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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With grade inflation they really need to start looking at scores more heavily.

Ivies are leaning that way.  Dartmouth and Yale both did a 5-year study and show standardized test scores are the most indicative of success.  They followed TO and those that submitted high scores too.  The TO were more likely to be on grade probation and grade probation has increased a lot since TO.[/quote]

At our HS it looks like for UVA you need a 4.4 and a 1420 or higher to be reliably accepted (and even then it's mixed with acceptances and denials).  Higher SAT scores don't seem to make up for a lower GPA, but few people are getting in with high grades and low SATs either.  W&M has similar stats, but it seems like you can get in with slightly lower GPA (e.g., 4.2)  if you have a 1500 or higher.

VT on the other hand is all over the map with quite a few students getting in with GPAs in the 3.5s and scores in the 1100s and just a messy mixture of acceptances, waitlists and rejections at all levels of GPAs and SATs. I can see why people are confused on what VT wants in students!  UVA and WM only want high scores, but at least it's a very clear-cut, predictable pattern.[/quote]

UVA may yield protect with OPs GPA and SAT, however.  There is a poster or two that insists not, so just be apprised. [/quote]

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