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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To OP - no one has said this yet so I'm tossing in a thought. You don't know at this point in middle school if your kids will have the stats and ECs for admission to UVA or W&M.   [/quote]

Eh if her kids are in private middle school, she doesn't need to worry about it.[/quote]

False. She has no idea now if her kids will have a 4.5 GPA, a 35 ACT or a 1520 SAT, which is the 75th percentile of last fall's class at UVA - and pretty much what you need to compete successfully for a slot from NOVA. Competition for in-state schools is only going to go up as privates approach $100k a year. (USC is now $96k)[/quote]

Private middle school = two smart parents with money = [b]those kids aren't going to have a problem getting into UVA.[/quote][/b]

Boy are you out-of-date! Did you see the stats it takes now to get into UVA? 4.5 GPA; 35 ACT; 1520 SAT and that's at the 75th percentile meaning 25% have higher stats. And geeat ECs. UVA and W&M have both become lottery schools. Especially for in-state kids where an acceptance could mean a savings of $220k compared to private. My kid applied to Ivies and UVA and picked UVA for its Jefferson Scholarship and never looked back. Now at Yale Law. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have these in-state options.

Go to Reddit or College Confidenfial and read the stats of the kids waiisted or denied.[/quote]

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