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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA, especially certain grad programs, has been very well respected for decades.  As nova has filled up with the children of brilliant people, it has become an extremely tough school to get into.  Sure, one had to be a very solid and well rounded student in the early 1990s to be admitted.  [b]But it was NOTHING like it is today[/b]. [/quote]

[b]Is that really true?  I re[/b]member acceptance rates in periods that were similar to today.  Yield rates used to be higher, I believe.  They keep changing SAT, so difficult to compare.  Average scores are higher, but you have to adjust for the test changes.  It was actually recentered up back in the 1990s because averages had gone down 100 points.  And GPAs from high school reflect high school grade inflation.  [/quote]

Yes, it's true.  Top 25% of ENROLLED (that's a lower stat than ADMITTED) 2017 students had a 4.44; median had a 4.29; bottom 25% had a 4.14 high school GPA.  ACT top 25% is 33-35.  SAT is 1500 for top 25%; 1400 for median and 1320 for bottom 25%.  The statistics for the enrolled class of 2018 will be higher.  http://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp.   Statistics for the ADMITTED class of 2022 is an accepted mean SAT of 1,431 and 93 percent ranking in the top 10 percent of their graduating high school class.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-releases-admissions-decisions-and-uva22-begins-trending-grounds.  Go read up on UVA in college confidential, especially the stats on the students who were rejected or put on waitlist.  The talent that is turned away is amazing.  Va Tech also is going now through a surge of applications but it is behind UVA.  It, too, is becoming much more difficult to get into.[/quote]

Your numbers from SCHEV (which I agree is the most reputable source) aren't quite accurate.  [b]The 75 percentile for ENROLLED students is 1480, not 1500[/b], and the 75th ACT composite is 33 -- not 35.  The 25/75 range for the the SAT is 1320 to 1480 and the ACT is 29-33.

By comparison, the ranges for 2008 were 1240 to 1420.  [/quote]

No, I am correct, the SCHEV report itself has a typo.  Go back to the SCHEV report and check.  You will see the total should be 1500, not 1480.[/quote]

It could be a typo, but that is unlikely.  They are calculated separately.  The 1480 would be the 50th percentile for the overall test.  The math and verbal would be 50th percentile for those tests considered independently.  They do not have to add to 1480, although they are usually pretty close.  You can see this occurs at other points in the data sets.[/quote]

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