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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming stats are comparable, this really lays out what makes the difference:
https://admission.virginia.edu/admission/characteristics-qualities-competitive-applicants

Plus second language proficiency.[/quote]

"We are deeply interested in students who show [b]kindness, care, and compassion[/b] to others and demonstrate character and integrity in all they do."

This is another top school explicitly focused on kindness (Dartmouth and Yale are two others).....[/quote]

Interesting. I have degrees from Dartmouth (professional school) and Yale and some of my best friends went to UVA. The people I know from the 3 schools are all very similar and I know multiple admissions officers who have 2/3 of those schools on their resume.[/quote]

I have 2/3 of these schools of my resume too and am married to someone from one of them to boot. [/quote]

I’m the one you’re responding to and am married to one as well! It’s really interesting that there would be such overlap between the places, but it makes sense. In order to make a relatively isolated place work, you need a lot of social cohesion and willingness to get along with one another. I moved to the west coast in adulthood and one of my best friends out here went to UVA, and one of DH’s best friends went to Darden. And we didn’t meet through professional networks or anything related to school.

Interestingly, when I go through the Instagram admit accounts for our local HSs, Yale and Dartmouth are picking up athletic recruits but UVA is picking up our local OOS kids who are just nice, smart kids- they’re kids I happen to know through my younger kids’ extracurriculars and they’re quite unhooked.[/quote]

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