Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

Yes, just like Vanderbilt.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

+1

DC is an example. Threw in an application in mid-December after being deferred ED from their first choice school. Why UVA? Because there were no supplementals this year, so DC figured why not.

No doubt a waste of money, but at the time it felt like a harmless act of self-soothing after the sting of deferral.

And your point is what? The bottom line is your kid applied.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. No complaints or issues related to my kid!

I was just agreeing with the PP who said that by dropping the supplemental essays, UVA set themselves up to get more applications than ever this year - which in turn drove down the admit rate.

I was using my kid as an example. Meaning, if UVA had supplemental essays this year, DC would not have bothered to apply. Guessing there are plenty of other kids who did the same.

Anyway, good for UVA. Looking back on this whole process, my feeling is the fewer supplementals a kid has to write, the better!

This year https://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/

Early Decision Applications
Total number of Early Decision applications: 5,108 (4,971 last year)
Total number of VA apps: 3,077 (2,795)
Total number of OOS apps: 2,031 (2,176)

Early Decision Offers
Overall offers: 1,225 (1,282)
Total VA offers: 766 (25% offer rate)
Total OOS offers: 459 (23% offer rate)

Early Action Applications
Total number of Early Action applications: 57,495 (41,885 last year)
Total number of VA apps: 13,445 (11,240)
Total number of OOS apps: 44,050 (30,645)

Early Action Offers
Overall offers: 7,151
Total VA offers: 3,071 (23% offer rate)
Total OOS offers: 4,080 (9% offer rate)

Total number of RD applications: 26,767 (17,568 last year)
Total RD VA apps: 6,377 (3,319)
Total RD OOS apps: 20,390 (14,049)

Regular Decision Offers
Overall offers: 1,895
Total VA offers: 472 (7.4%)
Total OOS offers: 1,423 (6.9%)

Total applications: 82,118 (64,463)
Total VA applications: 19,964 (17,608)
Total OOS applications: 62,154 (46,855)

Total offers of admission: 10,287
Total VA offers: 4,317 (22%)
Total OOS offers: 5,970 (10%)

Anonymous wrote:And because no supp essays didn’t uva say they had 90,000 applications- 40,000 more than last year???

Try 18k more. 64 last year and 82 this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

+1

DC is an example. Threw in an application in mid-December after being deferred ED from their first choice school. Why UVA? Because there were no supplementals this year, so DC figured why not.

No doubt a waste of money, but at the time it felt like a harmless act of self-soothing after the sting of deferral.

And your point is what? The bottom line is your kid applied.

And because no supp essays didn’t uva say they had 90,000 applications- 40,000 more than last year???

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

+1

DC is an example. Threw in an application in mid-December after being deferred ED from their first choice school. Why UVA? Because there were no supplementals this year, so DC figured why not.

No doubt a waste of money, but at the time it felt like a harmless act of self-soothing after the sting of deferral.

So he was admitted EA?

To UVA? No. By the time DC applied, I think it was for RD.

Haven't heard anything yet, as far as I know. But I'm assuming it will be a no given how few RD students UVA takes. (We're OOS.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

+1

DC is an example. Threw in an application in mid-December after being deferred ED from their first choice school. Why UVA? Because there were no supplementals this year, so DC figured why not.

No doubt a waste of money, but at the time it felt like a harmless act of self-soothing after the sting of deferral.

So he was admitted EA?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

+1

DC is an example. Threw in an application in mid-December after being deferred ED from their first choice school. Why UVA? Because there were no supplementals this year, so DC figured why not.

No doubt a waste of money, but at the time it felt like a harmless act of self-soothing after the sting of deferral.

Did the RD emails go out?

This shows how many people don't understand basic statistics. Did you read this?

We use completed applications in our statistics. These totals do not include deferred applications from the ED/EA rounds. Deferred students can withdraw at any time, so any RD total with the defers would be a snapshot of just one day.

You can't divide the offers by total applications because the total application number is undefined. The total is MORE than the number they cited because it would include the defers.

Anonymous wrote:No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

Yep! No essays always lead to more apps and then a lower rate.

No supplemental essays. Acceptance rate can be easily manipulated.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1317897.page

6% OOS, 7.5% in state
Stats just came out