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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to all those who were accepted to UVA. Now be prepared that the academic and rigorous school in which they applied and have been accepted to, will indeed be academic and rigorous. Welcome to UVA! You are going to love it!

My own kids don’t attend UVA but many of their friends do. I am sure some of this is major dependent, but their friends are in a range of majors and report college being easier than high school! (they did attend a well regarded high school) They all like UVA very much, and this is a small slice of the auVa student body (as is any group you know on which you based your statement) so this is not a knock on UVA, but why make pronouncements without facts.

well you're both wrong, it's entirely dependent on the kid, their HS experience and their major.

Anonymous wrote:Congrats to all those who were accepted to UVA. Now be prepared that the academic and rigorous school in which they applied and have been accepted to, will indeed be academic and rigorous. Welcome to UVA! You are going to love it!

My own kids don’t attend UVA but many of their friends do. I am sure some of this is major dependent, but their friends are in a range of majors and report college being easier than high school! (they did attend a well regarded high school) They all like UVA very much, and this is a small slice of the auVa student body (as is any group you know on which you based your statement) so this is not a knock on UVA, but why make pronouncements without facts.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was accepted into College of Arts and Sciences. 4.4 GPA. 1420 sat. 9 APs 1 DE. URM. Varsity athlete in two sports, captain, leadershiip positions volunteering and at work. FCPS high school (not a desireable high school by DCURBANMOMS standards).

there is one thing in here 100 times more important than anything else

Right out of the gate, the first comment came in with a racist undertone.

Agreed. What an obnoxious statement. To be clear, though, you’d see that on a post about admissions to any top college and not just UVA. There’s a whole contingent of DCUM posters who are convinced that race trumps everything. They are so bitter, insecure and wrong. The fact is that the post that generated this particular response would have generated nothing but praise had the poster not said “URM.” Everything about the student described in that post was impressive.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was accepted into College of Arts and Sciences. 4.4 GPA. 1420 sat. 9 APs 1 DE. URM. Varsity athlete in two sports, captain, leadershiip positions volunteering and at work. FCPS high school (not a desireable high school by DCURBANMOMS standards).

there is one thing in here 100 times more important than anything else

Right out of the gate, the first comment came in with a racist undertone.

Agreed. What an obnoxious statement. To be clear, though, you’d see that on a post about admissions to any top college and not just UVA. There’s a whole contingent of DCUM posters who are convinced that race trumps everything. They are so bitter, insecure and wrong. The fact is that the post that generated this particular response would have generated nothing but praise had the poster not said “URM.” Everything about the student described in that post was impressive.

Congrats to all those who were accepted to UVA. Now be prepared that the academic and rigorous school in which they applied and have been accepted to, will indeed be academic and rigorous. Welcome to UVA! You are going to love it!

Anonymous wrote:UVA admissions blog had a lot of good info in a quick read this morning. Wondering how the decisions played out at your schools, generally - a par for the course type of acceptance year, tougher, or a lot tougher?

No one here can make this kind of observation with any certainty. Unless there are counselors who somehow got a full accounting of decisions overnight, which I doubt happned.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. So much venom (and some racist undertones) from the bitter parents on this thread. Congratulations to all the kids who got into their school of choice! To the parent of the URM accepted student, please accept my wholehearted congrats and apologies for the dumb asses who latched onto that nugget. You’re kid has exceptional stats and nothing the haters say here can detract from your kid’s achievements. Just a lot of bitter, bickering losers here.

+ 1000

Agreed

UVA admissions blog had a lot of good info in a quick read this morning. Wondering how the decisions played out at your schools, generally - a par for the course type of acceptance year, tougher, or a lot tougher?

Anonymous wrote:I understand that DCUM is only a slice of the area college landscape, but given the questions and competitiveness expressed in this forum, I’m betting a fair number of kids applied ED to UVA. Based on the post-ED postings, it looks like results weren’t good.

We know how many people applied ED. UVA posted it on the admissions blog. It’s copied here, but several pages back. It was over 4000.

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s some perspective for all of you. I had two kids go to UVA. My youngest got in 10 years ago from Arlington public schools. She was an UMC white girl with no hooks, average excurriculars, a weighted GPA of just over a 4.0 (9 or 10 APs with plenty of Bs) and had a superscored SAT no higher than the mid-1200s. Granted, she got in off the waitlist, but still, I’m sure she wouldn’t have a prayer today.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, she ended up doing just fine academically, has lots of good memories, made some good friends that she still keeps in touch with and is happy enough that she went there, but all in all she wasn’t blown away by the experience. Her older sister feels exactly the same way.

TROLL!

The SAT was out of 2400 10 years ago.

Not a troll. UVA didn’t count the writing score. Lots of schools didn’t. Look it up.

Anonymous wrote:Here’s some perspective for all of you. I had two kids go to UVA. My youngest got in 10 years ago from Arlington public schools. She was an UMC white girl with no hooks, average excurriculars, a weighted GPA of just over a 4.0 (9 or 10 APs with plenty of Bs) and had a superscored SAT no higher than the mid-1200s. Granted, she got in off the waitlist, but still, I’m sure she wouldn’t have a prayer today.

Oh, and for what it’s worth, she ended up doing just fine academically, has lots of good memories, made some good friends that she still keeps in touch with and is happy enough that she went there, but all in all she wasn’t blown away by the experience. Her older sister feels exactly the same way.

TROLL!

The SAT was out of 2400 10 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:I understand that DCUM is only a slice of the area college landscape, but given the questions and competitiveness expressed in this forum, I’m betting a fair number of kids applied ED to UVA. Based on the post-ED postings, it looks like results weren’t good.

+1 agree but it’s par for the course on DCUM

I understand that DCUM is only a slice of the area college landscape, but given the questions and competitiveness expressed in this forum, I’m betting a fair number of kids applied ED to UVA. Based on the post-ED postings, it looks like results weren’t good.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was accepted into College of Arts and Sciences. 4.4 GPA. 1420 sat. 9 APs 1 DE. URM. Varsity athlete in two sports, captain, leadershiip positions volunteering and at work. FCPS high school (not a desireable high school by DCURBANMOMS standards).

there is one thing in here 100 times more important than anything else

Are you saying the URM factor weighs more than the gpa, LOR, ECs? That is not what UVA’s admissions says. My kid knows at least 8 other students at her “undesireable” high school that got in, and no, they are not URMs. They all had similar stats. They probably wrote excellent essays, good ECs and good LORs.

You have no idea if they put down they are URM.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/577722-more-than-a-third-of-white-students-lie-about-their/amp/

[b]excellent point - this is never ever challenged or questioned - if it makes it by the hs guidance counselor, this fraudulent behavior goes undetected 99% of time. And does have a real impact - sad

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Except that the article doesn't say what the PP thinks it does. It says caucasian lie about race, not URMs lying about race. Also, it's the Hill rag, so a poor choice to make any point.

You’re the one confused. Why on earth would an URM lie about their race? The URM have an edge. Who would want to remove that edge?! A poster said, “ My kid knows at least 8 other students at her “ My kid knows at least 8 other students at her “undesireable” high school that got in, and no, they are not URMs. undesireable” high school that got in, and no, they are not URMs.” The issue is they may be non URMs but may have claimed they are. No one knows…but lots of people do it, as it’s all based on self reporting and we know it gives people an edge.

How is stating a fact racist? That’s like saying the mere fact of saying African Americans are targeted by police more than whites is racist. That’s also a fact.

Wow. So much venom (and some racist undertones) from the bitter parents on this thread. Congratulations to all the kids who got into their school of choice! To the parent of the URM accepted student, please accept my wholehearted congrats and apologies for the dumb asses who latched onto that nugget. You’re kid has exceptional stats and nothing the haters say here can detract from your kid’s achievements. Just a lot of bitter, bickering losers here.