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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who.[/b]  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]

[b]Well, now you know who:

http://research.schev.edu/apps/info/CC_Feedback.Northern-Virginia-Community-College.ashx

2014-15 207 NVCC students transferred to UVA. [/quote][/b]

Thanks.  I've never seen that before.  I still don't know anyone's child who has done it.[/quote]

My roommate at UVA was a transfer from community college.[/quote]

How was s/he perceived by other UVA  students? [/quote]

My roommate found her niche pretty easily. I was a transfer too, but from another OOS public. [b]To be honest, UVA is so damn BIG[/b]. No one cares what your "pedigree" is. I had a multitude of friends from TJ, Echols Scholars, lazy high school student friends, etc...

I loved my time there. However, I found it very impersonal. I have a high school looking at colleges, and we have discussed the pros and cons of large universities.[/quote]

That's the benefit of starting there as a first year, if you can get in.  When I went to college, I knew no one on day one.  When DD arrived at UVA she knew at least 100 kids from the Facebook class of 2020 pages that the incoming students start themselves (highly recommended you have your student do this wherever they go).  DD had already located old friends from private schools she had gone to who were going, arranged car pools, found a Christian group she liked, and  a bunch of engineering nerds too.  The night we dropped her off, the whole group met up for dinner.  I didn't have that advantage going in to a small college - just the "face book".  A friend had asked why not the NVCC way and, for us, that's the answer.  DD is thrilled to be at UVA and is sucking up every opportunity that it offers.  and being in-state it's a very good deal.  Also the professors all know her, she's already declared in her major, part of the debating society and school paper.  That's the part of college that is difficult to replicate at NVCC and transfer (and I'm the person who doesn't know any students or parents of students who have done it, although they undoubtedly do).  [/quote]

I'm the PP who transferred in. I had of plenty of friends coming in as a second year even without the benefit of meeting people on Facebook or 1st year dorms. I'm not going to out myself, but I was admitted as a 1st year, turned down the acceptance to pursue a more highly ranked major at another OOS public. It didn't work out and I came back home and to UVA.

I think the problem of finding friends as a transfer is a bit overblown. I easily had 30+ people from my high school attending UVA already.

The impersonal part I mentioned was about my major department and overall educational experience. In retrospect, I think I should gone to a smaller school (less than 10K maybe), to have the opportunity to really get to know my professors, etc...[/quote]

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