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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of applicants go wrong when they think college admissions, especially at selective schools, is a stats-only arms race. Think about this, if you were to ask someone to join your family, club, or other small community, who would it be? How would you determine that? Where would you source your applications? How would it be impacted both by your own desires and timing and those of the applicants?  Think hard about that because, in some ways, that is the college admissions game. [/quote]

at Privates and SLACs, sure. At publics, especially those that have to answer to politicians, it's formulaic. You may not like or understand everything that goes into the formula- the kid from podunk high has a better shot than your kid because the school is supposed to serve the whole state- but that doesn't mean there aren't formulas [/quote]

At very large and non-selective publics, you’re probably right: they’re mostly filling seats. But for a “large” state school, UVA’s class size of 3750 is fairly small.  Plus, one-third of those admits are OOS. Despite what admissions says, I’m sure there is an initial screen to get rid of the unqualified applicants and then a deeper read of the remaining ones.  [/quote]

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