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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2017, HB Woodlawn sent more kids to VCU than to UVA, and sent more kids to JMU than UVA in 2016.  [/quote]

Not even remotely surprising.  VCU has the best arts program in the state -- and one of the best in the country -- and HB has a lot of kids with an arts bent.

UVA has never been a big draw for HB grads.  Too mainstream for many.  Doesn't mean they're not applying or not getting in.  For the year you listed, yes, only 4 went -- but 10 got in.  [/quote]

In 2016 almost twice as many HB students applied to UVA as VCU.  Try again. [/quote]

So what?  Virtually every top NOVA high school student applies to either UVA or William and Mary or both.  The point is, they didn't go.  Plus I thought you said [b]2017[/b], not 2016.  And in 2017 28 kids applied to UVA and 26 applied to VCU.  That's not double. [/quote]

So what? More turned down by UVA.[/quote]

You're arguing in circles and making no sense.  [b]The only school in the country where the majority of UVA applicants aren't turned down is TJ[/b].  But, since we're on the subject, the majority of William & Mary applicants (10 of 18) did get in.  That's damn impressive, and I'll bet it didn't happen at McLean.[/quote]

That would seem pretty doubtful.  [b]UVA in-state acceptance rate has been low 40[/b]s, so it would seem likely some schools are over 50%.  Same could be true of OOS schools with few people applying.[/quote]

You can't look at acceptance rates of the big in-state schools and compare them to privates.  It's apples an oranges.  The public high schools self-select as do the students themselves with the result being that only the students in the top ten percent or so of the class (with exception of TJ) apply to UVA.  Their college counselors know they won't get in so steer them elsewhere.  The college counselors also have their own letter of recommendation to send into UVA so it is not in the student's best interests to apply if the college counselor knows they don't fit their school's Naviance profile for UVA.  This is the same for UCLA and Berkeley.[/quote]

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