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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really have to apply ED to get in? EA isn’t good enough?[/quote]

Of course not. UVA lets in many students from our HS, almost all from the top30%, ED is only "needed" for the bottom of that group. The top 15% get into UVA EA as long as they took enough hard courses and have the scores. [/quote]

Is this TJ because that’s not how it is most anywhere else.  At my kids school only the top 5% got in.[/quote]

No, not TJ! They do slightly better. Just a test-in high school that is not top 3 in the state but is a top 10 in the state.

Biggest issue people have with UVA is so much grade inflation exists and class rank and more importantly relative course rigor are very hard to determine by parents. Median weighted gpa can be 4.1–4.2 at many schools in VA especially nova. 8 APs can be average. To truly be top 30% at the more competitive schools(usually the test-in privates or public magnets) one has to do a lot more than a 3.9uw/4.2 W with 8 APs. [/quote]

Yep, it's a crapshoot.  I posted in another thread about my two DS's, 2021 and 2024, at Mclean/Langley. 2021 had 3.9 UW/4.2 W with 8 APs, 1490 SAT, rejected by UVA.  2024 had 3.9 UW/4.3 W with 10 APs, 1500 SAT, accepted by UVA in EA.  Same average ECs.  Very slight difference between the two DSs, but one in and one out.  Why?  I have no idea.[/quote]

If the 2nd one was admitted and first one rejected- I get it.

My kid had uw4.0/w4.4, 35ACT. The first one had scores and gpa borderline for UVA and coming out of Langley/McLean probably many kids with much higher scores, gpa. [/quote]

If you look at the recent history of your high school, you can tell which high school UVA favors, and which UVA does not.  ie: how many potential slots for your particular school's applicants. Also, most of UVA's students apply ED/EA, which to many people, reads "yield protection". There are top kids in our high schools (plural) who were not admitted in recent years, because they did not apply ED/EA. They had higher stats than those who were admitted (but no sob story, which may be a factor, given UVA's need to try to right its past wrongs).

To answer OP's question: money. [/quote]

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