Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 10:26     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?


What I have seen at McLean HS over the past 6 years is about 10% of the class gets in to both UVA and W&M.


I don't mean all the student get into both -Just that about 10% get into each.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 10:25     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.


Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.


It is by region, not by individual HS. It has been this way for a number of years.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 10:23     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?


What I have seen at McLean HS over the past 6 years is about 10% of the class gets in to both UVA and W&M.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 10:17     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.


Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.


+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.


Uh huh. Amazing how many people on DCUM have a kid who declined TJ...
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 10:13     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
This is interesting:
http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2016/10/uva-admission-quotas-for-northern.html
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:56     Subject: Re:Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:If you want in at UVA, go to NVCC and avail yourself of the guaranteed transfer admission process. The criteria are not hard to meet. Secret is getting out, though.


Sounds like fun...or not.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:55     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:By NOVA penalty, do you mean getting stuck going to a school where everybody is from NOVA?


Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:53     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
By NOVA penalty, do you mean getting stuck going to a school where everybody is from NOVA?
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:39     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
of course. schools look for geographic diversity, including regional diversity within a particular state.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:39     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.


Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.


+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.


Well played.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 09:37     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.


Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.


+1...this is the reason our son declined TJ and went to his base HS.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 08:22     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.


Better to be in a mediocre-plus high school.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 08:21     Subject: Re:Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
If you want in at UVA, go to NVCC and avail yourself of the guaranteed transfer admission process. The criteria are not hard to meet. Secret is getting out, though.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 08:10     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Quotas by high school not county. Better to be in a lesser H S.
Anonymous
Post 03/15/2017 08:09     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Just wondering if students from NOVA need better grades/test scores (when compared with students from other parts of VA) to get accepted at UVA. Or is this just a rumor?