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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS has two friends who were rejected from their #1s, UVA, but each got accepted to an Ivy (Penn & Princeton). One was also rejected from each of his safety schools. The safeties! It makes no sense! How can you get accepted to Penn and rejected from UVA, W&M, JMU, and UMD??

Makes me wish I had pushed my son to apply to some ivies. He didn't have any desire in them, but his stats are only slightly less than the friend who got into Penn (unhooked) and about on-par with the friend who got into Princeton. And DS was accepted to UVA, which was his reach and #1. His gf was rejected from UVA, and she has much better stats than DS. His gf was applying for engineering and DS is going for biology for pre-med, though, so I know that also factors in.

I'm so glad DS is my last kid to go through the college acceptance process because I can't take the stress of another around. Cannot.Do.It! [/quote]

I think what may have happened is that the Ivies and other top20s GENDER BALANCE whereas the state schools do not. These top privates keep the gender mix 50/50 whereas I don't think those VA state schools care about gender (or are even allowed to care).

Your son's friends probably had a big advantage applying to places at the Ivy level and your son likely would have had it as well. I have girl/boy twins and while my kids did not apply top top20 schools, the boys at our school did much better than girls at top20s this year.  If the boys applied as humanities majors they seemed to have a HUGE advantage.

If the gf got dinged at UVA it was probably due to major choice (engineering) rather than gender. [/quote]

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