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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most TJ kids get into UVA? [/quote]

This is an old article but I found it interesting.
https://www.tjtoday.org/11340/opinion/university-of-virginia-admissions-procedure-hurts-jefferson-students/

With regard to a typical NoVA public school, our mid sized LCPS graduates a class of approximately 400 each year, and according to Naviance, UVA accepts 15-17 each year out of about 65-70+ applicants. Of that, about 10 will attend.  Heard directly from our school counselor's mouth, "UVA likes the to 5%" so if you're in there, you're golden. My twins were top 2% and top 6%. They are, at least at our school, VERY focused on GPA over test scores (though I know Dean J will protest - it's true at our school). I know tons of kids who had better much scores than mine (in pre-COVID years), whose GPA was under 4.25 and did not get in. For some frame of reference, my UVA accepted kids GPAs are 4.43 and 4.6.  As of right now, Naviance updated this morning to show 5 accepted out of a class of 404, two are my kids and the only ones who got in ED so that would mean that only 3 additional got in through EA, which is crazy as we had 76 applications this year.  I can't imagine that is true, but it updated overnight and it's clearly not ED people because they would show as enrolled and they are not.

For comparison, over 100 kids applied to Tech this year, usually about 60+ get in and 30+ attend. W&M does not draw quite as strongly for some reason from our HS, kinda seen as not a a "fun" school and the lack of really competitive sports seems to deter alot. If you look the Naviance graph for W&M, it's a sea of Blue (waitlist for the uninitiated). My kid was going to apply but knew he had to do ED to have the best chance of getting in. We only send a handful of kids to W&M every year, literally like 3 or 4.[/quote]

FWIW, that’s a high school student opinion piece seven years old.[/quote]

Duh? But for the poster who asked it gives you a sense of the numbers and what THEY perceive to be quotas.[/quote]

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