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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.
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[b]She can try to transfer in.[/quote][/b]

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA.  The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process.  I have a DC at UVA right now.  The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough.  Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC.  Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible.  She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers.  So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who.  Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.[/quote]

Well, that makes sense because UVA has a guaranteed--yes, I said guaranteed--transfer arrangement with NVCC.  Meet he criteria and you're in,no questions no askedAnd the criteria are not really that demanding.  I would imagine that getting UMC parents to bite on this would be tough (percieved stigma and other irrational fears).  But I don't see how anyone can rationally overlook this easy way into a fantastic school.  And at the end of the day, your UVA degree is just as good as anyone else's.  I'll stop now.[/quote]

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