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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 = those kids aren't going to have a problem getting into UVA.[/quote]

DP. This is not even remotely true.[/quote]

I’m sorry you are painfully stupid.[/quote]

why do you care so much that you have to resort to insulting this PP. It is ture and they are not "painfully stupid". Ask any public or private college counselor. Simply "being in a private middle school with parents with money - as was suggested" - does NOT mean automatic in to UVA just like a similad
r case in CA does not mean an auto in to UCLA or Cal. The kid has to have the stats (and, yes, TO is going away for UVA in fall of 2026) and the ECs and LORs to make an meritorious application and then sit and pray be Use there are only 5,000 seats (unlike UCLA and Cal) and of course URM and first-gen helps.

Oh, I get it you are a rival kid at VT. Go to bed.[/quote]

I’m sorry you are also stupid. I did not say “automatic” admission to UVA. [b]But any intelligent person (ie not you or the other PP) recognizes that these kids are, to a very high degree of probability, in a demographic that will have no problem getting into UVA.[/b]

Why are you even talking about UCLA or Cal? Oh yeah it’s because you’re stupid.[/quote]

I’m the other PP and this is still wrong.  :lol: It’s almost like you don’t know anything about UVA admissions, or the demographics of northern VA. Why are you even here?[/quote]

+1. I'm a college counselor. There is no demographic that has "no problem getting into UVA".  It's a very tough admit, in large part because - unlike privates and other states - we have the SCHEV stats.  That, combined with Naviance and SCOIR data, mean that students do a better job of self-selecting when applying to top VA schools. When you are at Langley and you see the SCHEV stats of 4.5 and 35 ACT at the 75th percentile and you see from Naviance at Langley that the clear cut-off is a 4.4, 34 ACT and that went to an URM you do not bother applying to UVA. The applicant logically moves down a step. This is affirmed also by the public high school counselors who will show parents and applicants the SCHEV and Naviance scores to give them a more realistic view of their true options when selecting reaches, targets and safeties.[/quote]

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