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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't understand how what point you're making. I've never even heard of AP Scholar with Distinction.[/quote]

What it means is that there are precious few students in Virginia, who as rising seniors are able to win these awards which are given to those have taken 3 to 7 AP's to that point.  The number of junior national AP scholars is minuscule.  The awards themselves do not require perfect scores, only averages above 3.25 and 3.5.  My point is that if you actually look at the number of kids in Virginia doing even this well (again far from perfectly) on their AP exams, it turns out that it's a very small pool.  Even smaller if you took only the kids with 5's.  There is [b]not[/b] a huge redoubt out there somewhere in Virginia of brilliant kids who will raise the selectivity of UVA further.  Again that's not the way the bell curve works.  A stable pool of high achieving Virginia kids means stable selectivity for UVA.  In other words peak UVA.

But of course you will need all fives on 15 AP's now and 20 in five years to have a chance in the "battle of the fittest" that is the UVA admissions process.   :roll:

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