Anonymous
06/04/2025 06:45
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
Quota is a bad word that no one likes to use but of course there are absolutely, roughly speaking, percentages of students accepted each year from different schools.
These percentages can change over time and sometimes there might be an outlier year here or there or a year when there is a dip. You'll see a lot more of these outlier years at private schools where the numbers are a lot smaller and where the college counselors work hard to help present each individual student.
But if you are at FCPS, for example, and go on to Naviance you can absolutely see how students with your GPA and SAT scores stand. And all the implications of what I have just written are absolutely true: a kid with a 4.2 at TJ will be judged against his peers as will the kid with the 4.2 at McLean HS as will the kid at Justic HS. So the likelihood of getting into UVA with a 4.2 and 1450 is pretty much nil at McLean but likely at other FCPS schools.
All that said, OP needs to understand that you can't tell from Naviance what majors/colleges students are applying to. Virginia Tech is a great example. LOTS of kids get into Virginia Tech from FCPS, so it looks like a not very difficult admit. But, in fact, top students are turned away from engineering, for example, while mid-level students get into the College of Arts and Sciences.
These percentages can change over time and sometimes there might be an outlier year here or there or a year when there is a dip. You'll see a lot more of these outlier years at private schools where the numbers are a lot smaller and where the college counselors work hard to help present each individual student.
But if you are at FCPS, for example, and go on to Naviance you can absolutely see how students with your GPA and SAT scores stand. And all the implications of what I have just written are absolutely true: a kid with a 4.2 at TJ will be judged against his peers as will the kid with the 4.2 at McLean HS as will the kid at Justic HS. So the likelihood of getting into UVA with a 4.2 and 1450 is pretty much nil at McLean but likely at other FCPS schools.
All that said, OP needs to understand that you can't tell from Naviance what majors/colleges students are applying to. Virginia Tech is a great example. LOTS of kids get into Virginia Tech from FCPS, so it looks like a not very difficult admit. But, in fact, top students are turned away from engineering, for example, while mid-level students get into the College of Arts and Sciences.
Anonymous
06/04/2025 06:37
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
Anonymous wrote:I feel like the online systems (naviance and SCOIR) will be off this year bc there are SOOO many admits off the WL?
Our denotes waitlist and waitlist to accept differently. You will see both.
Anonymous
06/04/2025 05:52
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
No quotas, no yield protection. Move along, folks.
Anonymous
06/04/2025 05:29
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
UVA is not as transparent as the UCs which give you the data to see acceptances by school and average GPA by school. Don’t think there are quotas but some UCs sure seem to favor certain schools
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-source-school
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-us/information-center/admissions-source-school
Anonymous
06/04/2025 04:36
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
'Anonymous wrote:There's no quota, but they admit around the same percentage per year. If the number applying from the school suddenly changed, you'd see a shift in the number.
And yet sometimes there is absolutely a quota, or a maximum.
Anonymous
06/03/2025 12:52
Subject: Number of offers to a college from a HS?
There's no quota, but they admit around the same percentage per year. If the number applying from the school suddenly changed, you'd see a shift in the number.