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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are in NOVA, it is very hard to get into UVA even with 35+ ACT and 1550+ SAT and incredible ECs. You are compared to the peers at your high school. At my child’s school those peers also have great applications. I have no idea how they pick one great kid over another. For every amazing kid who got an acceptance tonight there’s an amazing kid who didn’t. 
It does all work out in the end. I mean, if your absolute dream is UVA do the community college associate’s degree route and transfer. [/quote]

Maybe go to a less gunner school? At our public every kid over 4.4 and 1500 pretty much gets in, according to the scatterplot from the last 5 years. [/quote]

But that was NOT the PP’s point.  And you failed to indicate your child’s HS.   What the PP wrote was:

“ If you are in NOVA, it is very hard to get into UVA even with 35+ ACT and 1550+ SAT and incredible ECs. You are compared to the peers at your high school. At my child’s school those peers also have great applications. I have no idea how they pick one great kid over another. For every amazing kid who got an acceptance tonight there’s an amazing kid who didn’t.
It does all work out in the end. I mean, if your absolute dream is UVA do the community college associate’s degree route and transfer. “

From a NOVA public, it is nearly impossible to get into UVA.[/quote].

It is and it isn’t. Thirty kids in my DC’s graduating class accepted their offer of admission to UVA, so I’m guessing more than that were admitted - from a class of about 630. That’s not unusual for DC’s FCPS public and I’ve seen the same in some of the Arlington public schools. [/quote]

30 (or even 40 if more got in) out of 630 is still an incredibly low percentage given that’s an instate school, and probably a very good one. [/quote]

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