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Anonymous wrote:How does this program work? The beginning of this massively long thread notes "nomination" and then the end notes "application". So what is it? The website is very vague in terms of how one seeks entry. (Unless I'm looking at the wrong page, which could be the problem.)

Public and private high schools in Virginia nominate rising 11th & 12th graders for the program. There are limits per school/area, so depending on your school you may have a different application process. For example, if anyone had wanted to apply for the German World Language academy from our school, they could have applied. Many kids wanted to do some of the programs, like math and humanities, so those had an application process through the school/district before being sent to state. At the state level, the process is pretty opaque and no one seems to share the actual numbers of applicants. If students get in, they spend 3-4 weeks at on a Virginia college campus with other students and faculty who share their interest.

Two of mine did governor's academy for Latin, roughly 6-7 years ago. Their application process worked like this from a relatively large Nova public HS but it could have changed by now: Based on the number of the students at the school, the Latin teacher could nominate 2 applicants (larger schools nominated 2, smaller schools 1). She selected the applicants to nominate. Those applications then went to someone at the state level who made the final selection. We were told there were about 450 applicants from across the state. Roughly 40-50 were offered spots and another group was essentially waitlisted. No clue how many that was. The first time one of my kids applied she was waitlisted. I do not think the waitlist moves much. Both my kids loved the program.

yeah and because you have to wait you cant book any summer programs you pay for, most of the ones my kid was interested in are already sold out

Why do schools find out one week before students? They are able to tell the students, so it’s not a secret but the students have to go to the admin to find out. (I’m really hoping VDOE lets them know April 8, because I’d like to schedule some family travel if it’s a no.)

Anonymous wrote:I agree. The waiting is so hard......everyone wants to firm up summer plans and you can't really do that until you hear back. I really hope they are on time this year.....or earlier than expected. Wouldn't that be a nice surprise!

It really was very difficult waiting.
We had Plan B and Plan C laid out with late registration fees.
A lot of the other paid programs were not refundable and we didn't want to gamble on that.
Fortunately, our kid was accepted.

Anonymous wrote:How does this program work? The beginning of this massively long thread notes "nomination" and then the end notes "application". So what is it? The website is very vague in terms of how one seeks entry. (Unless I'm looking at the wrong page, which could be the problem.)

Public and private high schools in Virginia nominate rising 11th & 12th graders for the program. There are limits per school/area, so depending on your school you may have a different application process. For example, if anyone had wanted to apply for the German World Language academy from our school, they could have applied. Many kids wanted to do some of the programs, like math and humanities, so those had an application process through the school/district before being sent to state. At the state level, the process is pretty opaque and no one seems to share the actual numbers of applicants. If students get in, they spend 3-4 weeks at on a Virginia college campus with other students and faculty who share their interest.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think that information is shared with schools/applicants. Our school advised that Agriculture is the easiest to get into.

yeah probably agriculture from nova, my kid applied for math

How does this program work? The beginning of this massively long thread notes "nomination" and then the end notes "application". So what is it? The website is very vague in terms of how one seeks entry. (Unless I'm looking at the wrong page, which could be the problem.)

I agree. The waiting is so hard......everyone wants to firm up summer plans and you can't really do that until you hear back. I really hope they are on time this year.....or earlier than expected. Wouldn't that be a nice surprise!

We also have a backup plan if they don’t get in, but it would be nice to know soon or at least on schedule. Is our best guess that the kids find out April 15 and schools find out April 8? Reading through the old posts, I feel terrible for those waiting extra weeks last year. At least it seemed like there were a lot of positive responses? (Though maybe people just don’t come back if it’s a waitlist or no?)

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the VDOE hired for the person who retired last year? I’m wondering if they will announce in mid-April this year or have another messy notification situation like last year.

Yeah we cant book anything for this summer until we find out, i wish they notified us earlier

Does anyone know if the VDOE hired for the person who retired last year? I’m wondering if they will announce in mid-April this year or have another messy notification situation like last year.

NC had them. I was not selected but my siblings were.

I don’t think that information is shared with schools/applicants. Our school advised that Agriculture is the easiest to get into.

anyone know what the chance is when you get to State Level?

nope