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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=TheSpanishDoctor][quote=Anonymous]I had two kids go to UVA almost a decade apart from each.  When each applied the ratio for in state versus out of state enrollment (basically two to one) was exactly the same as it is today.  So the claim that it’s OOS enrollment that’s causing the problem is bullshit.

Also, my second kid got in almost a decade after my first from one of the alleged top NOVA publics with lower SATs than my older one but higher grades.  In fact, the SATs were lower than the 25 percentile range for UVA students and she hold no hooks.  None.  UVA has always cared more about grades and courses taken than test scores.

Which leads to my third point: [b]the poster suggesting that all you have to do is move to Southwest Virginia and get a 1400 on the SAT has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. The fact is, some of those places don’t even send a single student to UVA. The only students getting into UVA from any school in the state of Virginia are students at the very top of their class, and to suggest that they will take just about anyone from coal country is complete, total, disrespectful and unadulterated bullshit.[/b]

What is really going on nowadays is that students are applying to many more colleges than they have in the past because the process is easier.   But the same students are getting into UVA that always have: the ones at the top of the class.[/quote]

I think most people get this idea from states such as Texas: "Public universities in Texas are required to automatically accept every student who graduates from high school in the top 10% of their class. But UT-Austin is an exception: Right now, state law requires that 75% of UT-Austin’s freshman class must be automatically admitted if they graduated from a Texas public high school in the top 6% of their class." [url]https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/22/texas-legislation-ut-austin-affirmative-action/[/url].

When I heard a friend explain to another parent how UVA has to take X number of students from each county or region or whatever, I pointed him to the UVA Admission FAQs: "Do you have quotas or targets for certain schools or areas? No. While we maintain a 2/3 majority of Virginia residents in our student population, there are no restrictions on how many students we may admit from a particular school, town, county, or region." [url]https://admission.virginia.edu/faqs[/url]. I thought he understood, but a couple years later he was sharing the same cautionary advice.

I don't know how long UVA has been doing admissions this way, but it's definitely been more than a decade: [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/does-uva-have-a-quota-for-northern-virginia-admissions/2013/11/25/559685ba-557b-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html[/url].[/quote]

No, they get the idea because somehow they have convinced themselves that their kids - among the most privileged on Planet Earth - are somehow disadvantaged and put upon.  It’s ridiculous.  [/quote]

Anyone who cares about getting into UVA is not that privileged.[/quote]

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