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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is tricky. You can’t tell from naviance if the OOS kids who were rejected took the courses that UVA expects them to take. The most important thing to UVA is the coursework and the grades. A 4.5 or 4.6 doesn’t tell you much.

At my kid’s oos school a ton of kids are applying this year even though they know that they don’t have the coursework or grades that are needed tp get in.  [/quote]

What is that coursework?[/quote]

Classes all four years in the five core subjects.  Prefer applicants who have taken AP or IB across the curriculum if it’s offered at their school (so AP science, AP math, AP English, AP world language, etc.).  High grades in everything.  [/quote]

They also see certain classes as weak. My kid was told not to take AP environmental because he had no other AP science classes and it wasn’t considered rigorous. Also, if they have the option to take AP foreign language but instead take Spanish 5 or similar that is seen as not rigorous. Etc. [/quote]

My DS took Ap Enviro senior year and is now at UVA.  [/quote]

UVA is an overrated school that has no business being ranked where it is. [/quote]

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