Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

Unfortunately, true.

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Makes me sick.

Not so!

It is absolutely true; the guidance dept. at DC's (Fx. Co.) high school is very open about this fact.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everybody wants in because the price is right!

The price is really right if you do this. Go to NVCC for 2 years and meet the (pretty easy) requirements for a guaranteed transfer to UVA. Per Obama, comm college might be free. So, two years of instate tuition at UVa. It's too good to be true, and such an amazing deal, that I wonder if it will be scaled back.

That is an amazing deal! You can do that also at University of Wisconsin Madison.

My niece had very similar stats from a FCPS IB program and did get in, so there is hope. She did not have any particular hook -- some extra-curriculars, but nothing that I'd think of as particularly noteworthy. She gives me hope that your normal bright kid that works hard can still get into a good school, even if you haven't, like, discovered a gene or won the Olympics or written an opera or something at 17.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My similar DC was waitlisted then denied with similar stats (don't know how the GPA translates - mine had a 4.6/3.92) but was OOS so it's a larger pool for fewer spots. I'd say it's a crapshoot. She's qualified but who knows.

Did she apply EA? shouldn't those decisions be out soon or already?

You can't get a 4.6 with 3.92 in FCPS. You can't get it with a 4.0 unweighted. When I look at Naviance, the highest is about a 4.5 weighted.

Thus the statement about translating GPA and being out of state.

Thank you. I thought I made that clear but I guess not to everyone. We aren't crossing borders to sneak into FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

Unfortunately, true.

+2
Makes me sick.

Not so!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

Unfortunately, true.

+2
Makes me sick.

Anonymous wrote:Everybody wants in because the price is right!

The price is really right if you do this. Go to NVCC for 2 years and meet the (pretty easy) requirements for a guaranteed transfer to UVA. Per Obama, comm college might be free. So, two years of instate tuition at UVa. It's too good to be true, and such an amazing deal, that I wonder if it will be scaled back.

Everybody wants in because the price is right!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

That myth has been debunked by the UVa admissions office.

Actually the opposite is true. I've personally heard them say more than once that given the same stats, the ROVA kid gets the spot over the NOVA kid. They're unapologetic about it--it's just the way it is. NOVA alone could fill every seat with qualified students -- and UVA doesn't want to be UNOVA. I don't know how it translates to OOS apps.

OOS students face much, much stiffer odds, but OOS legacies are treated as in state applicants, I think (need to verify). Heck, look at the common data set--once upon a time, the instate admit rate was close to 50 percent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

That myth has been debunked by the UVa admissions office.

Actually the opposite is true. I've personally heard them say more than once that given the same stats, the ROVA kid gets the spot over the NOVA kid. They're unapologetic about it--it's just the way it is. NOVA alone could fill every seat with qualified students -- and UVA doesn't want to be UNOVA. I don't know how it translates to OOS apps.

Big picture, I think, your kid has a better shot at getting in from a nova hs. The university takes a ton of kids from nova but limited numbers from rova schools. Smaller picture, if your kid is on the bubble, it helps to come from rova. But it is a state school, of course. I think the OP's kid is in. But never put all eggs in one basket, of course.

You should be proud. She has great stats and probably worked really hard.

Anonymous wrote:The biggest strike against her will be she went to a Northern Virginia High School.

Unfortunately, true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My similar DC was waitlisted then denied with similar stats (don't know how the GPA translates - mine had a 4.6/3.92) but was OOS so it's a larger pool for fewer spots. I'd say it's a crapshoot. She's qualified but who knows.

Did she apply EA? shouldn't those decisions be out soon or already?

You can't get a 4.6 with 3.92 in FCPS. You can't get it with a 4.0 unweighted. When I look at Naviance, the highest is about a 4.5 weighted.

Thus the statement about translating GPA and being out of state.

Anonymous wrote:My similar DC was waitlisted then denied with similar stats (don't know how the GPA translates - mine had a 4.6/3.92) but was OOS so it's a larger pool for fewer spots. I'd say it's a crapshoot. She's qualified but who knows.

Did she apply EA? shouldn't those decisions be out soon or already?

You can't get a 4.6 with 3.92 in FCPS. You can't get it with a 4.0 unweighted. When I look at Naviance, the highest is about a 4.5 weighted.

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