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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS students outside the top of their class don't even apply.[/quote]

DS is at FCPS (Mclean/Langley), and got in during EA (3.9 UW/4.3 W/1500 SAT).

Core group of friends with similar GPAs and SATs but much, much better ECs (yearbook/newspaper editors, state-level awards) were waitlisted in RD on Friday night.

So yes, there is a fault line in the Naviance scattergram data between admit and deny for UVA, which discourages those below the line from applying, and even for those above the fault line, it is still a crapshoot.  DS was right on that line and got in, but just as easily could have been denied/waitlisted.

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Can you share the fault line numbers? We’re OOS and have no Naviance data for UVA [/quote]

PP here.  DS was right on the fault line for his FCPS school in Naviance.  Higher SAT could offset some lower GPA and vice versa to give you an indication.  UVA cares about academic rigor, e.g., that the student took difficult courses and did reasonably well (DS had a few B+'s so it is not necessary "to get all As to get into UVA"  that you will read all over this board, but of course it will help; DS had 5 APs after junior year and is taking 5 APs senior year).   Other districts allow their students to take more APs earlier in HS and weight differently, so W GPA is not so useful. You are really being compared against others in your HS and district.

Older DS, from same FCPS high school, with 3.9 UW/4.3 W GPA, 9 APs, 1490 SAT, was rejected by UVA in 2021 but got into Michigan (and is there now).  Objectively there was almost no difference between the two.   They even had the same (average) ECs.

We spent the entire process trying to find schools "like" UVA because we never thought 2024 DS was getting in because UVA is a crapshoot for everyone from NOVA/Richmond or OOS, no matter what the credentials.  It may be less of a crapshoot for a DC coming out of Bristol or Abingdon, but the opportunities in those locales are more limited and the UVA AO accounts for this.

For OOS, I am not sure what the fault line is.  I've seen all kinds of folks here and College Confidential complain about their 4.0 UW/1550 SAT applicant not getting in, but others with lower credentials getting in.  Last year there was a local kid from a private who got into Princeton but was waitlisted at UVA but eventually got in  (and duly rejected the slot).

Your DC just has to take their shot and see if it hits.

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