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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]At W-L, 90 kids were accepted at Virginia Tech last year our out of 125 applicants (72%). UVA- 48 accepted with 140 applied (34%), William & Mary - 35/88 (40%). Certainly, there is self-selection as to who applies but it's more than a &quot;few&quot; that get in.[/quote]

[b]My kids' FCPS high school typically has around 100 kids with at least a 4.0, so many of the rejected kids from these schools are at that level or above.

In 2016, 43/120 got into W&M, 56/163 into UVA and 100/157 in VT (good year, some years it's &lt;50%). A 3.8 will simply not get you into UVA or W&M and it's a bit iffy for VT, although they accept a wider range of GPAs.  SATs: Average accepted  for Tech is 1380, 1460 for UVA, 1450 for W&M[/quote][/b]

If it is the same FCPS high school we went through, what you are not seeing in those stats is the overall size of the class and the degree of self-selection that goes on in the application process if you are in NOVA. The college counselor and those faculty writing letters are not going to help your B students apply to UVA.  They just aren't.  If I had suggested that for DC they would have laughed me out of the room.  Only the very best of the 525 students in a class will be supported by the system to apply to those two schools.  Those students are the same ones applying to HYPS.  Our numbers for getting into W&M and UVA were much smaller than those above.  It seemed like the same ten students got in everywhere but not for the rest of the class.  You are much better off applying to a VA university from any other area than NOVA and especially FCPS.[/quote]

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