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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course Dean J says its 'holistic'. Makes her job look important.

But in reality they have too many applications to sort through.

At TJ ( I am looking at Naviance as I type this) not a SINGLE applicant was declined if they had GPA over 4.47

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not a SINGLE application got accepted if the GPA was below 4.32

Clearly they are based of GPA.  The Naviance chart looks like those weather forecasts...with a clear 'front' of accepts, behind which are declines..[/quote]

I agree with you that UVA admissions is very stats driven. As others have said, where the holistic part comes in is largely when comparing among school districts or even schools within a district. I would guess that a HUGE percentage of the senior class at TJ has the stats to get into UVA. UVA may accept more students from TJ than any other school but they don't take every deserving student. Someone with the exact same stats, rejected from TJ, might get in from McLean. Someone with much lower stats might get in from a public high school in Roanoke. [/quote]

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