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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a few families that chose Wake Forest over UVA, so wouldn’t be hard to believe UVA loses in these cross-admit hypotheticals. Private school families generally prefer private school college. If you’re a public school family you’re oblivious to what you’re missing, so your standards are quite low. You’re used to being invisible.[/quote]

Everything looks quite different when UVA is OOS and costs are equal.  The ranking of Wake in USNews has long surprised me, though.  It is in the same area as UVA.  They've gone test optional, which is a pretty good indicator they feel they would have trouble keeping up with competitors if they didn't do it.  I'm sure they have pretty strong students, but a very small percentage of applicants actually have class ranks provided now.  This is typical of private schools in particular.  The percentage can be as low as 20% of applicants.  That means the schools can focus much more on just lowering the admit rate and accepting kids with high standardized tests (e.g. Vandy).  They just need to make sure those 20% of applicants with class rank have one that is reasonable.

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Wake is strange as even with test optional, there stats are still low. Imagine what the middle 50 range would be if the optional students were quantified. [/quote]

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