From lurking around here, there's major saltiness when a student is rejected or waitlisted at a school they considered a target — like, places where their stats are in line with (or slightly above) the school's average and the acceptance rate is maybe 25% or 35%.

Of course schools with a 35% acceptance rate still have to reject 65%, including many kids with good stats. That's where other factors like essays, recs, demonstrated interest, ECs, and pure luck come into play. Many parents here treat targets like safeties and act so salty or snobby when the decisions don't fall their way — "Obviously, it's just yield protection."

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OMG, I would be so embarrassed if my in-state kids hadn’t gotten into UVA. Newsflash: it is a public university and designed specifically to admit students from Virginia. Of course they got in and of course they both turned it down. It is a total safety school. Luckily our investments have done very very well, so our kids ended up going to Brown and Princeton.

Say you're not an insecure prestige-seeker without saying you're an insecure prestige-seeker. Good lord, this is such a heinous response. So, your kids are "investments", ok. Hope you budgeted some for their therapy because they are gonna need it.

I read this as an obvious troll post. It’s gotta be- “our investments”?

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Anonymous wrote:Most people accept being rejected by Harvard, MIT, CalTech, etc. But which school rejections are the hardest to accept? UVA? UCHICAGO? And why? Do people on DCUM really believe these are any easier to get in? I've been following for about three years now and this time of year gets super salty

Well, UVA has an acceptance around 25-30% compared to Harvard, MIT and Cal Tech less than 10%. So yes, UVA should be easier admit.

OMG, I would be so embarrassed if my in-state kids hadn’t gotten into UVA. Newsflash: it is a public university and designed specifically to admit students from Virginia. Of course they got in and of course they both turned it down. It is a total safety school. Luckily our investments have done very very well, so our kids ended up going to Brown and Princeton.

Embarrassed? UVA is a top 25 school! Which happens to save in-state families $250k compared to schools like Wake Forest, which is ranked way lower. So no, not embarrassed. And there are plenty of kids at our son’s large NoVa public that were not admitted.

Don’t feed obvious trolls.

You can tell from the comments here over just the past few days that the kids are on break now.

My kid was deferred from Yale SCEA. No sour grapes here. Just moving on to RD.

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OMG, I would be so embarrassed if my in-state kids hadn’t gotten into UVA. Newsflash: it is a public university and designed specifically to admit students from Virginia. Of course they got in and of course they both turned it down. It is a total safety school. Luckily our investments have done very very well, so our kids ended up going to Brown and Princeton.

Say you're not an insecure prestige-seeker without saying you're an insecure prestige-seeker. Good lord, this is such a heinous response. So, your kids are "investments", ok. Hope you budgeted some for their therapy because they are gonna need it.

Anonymous wrote:I thought this thread was about t10 schools? Why on earth is the UVA booster here?

I read it as the top schools for which people get sour grapes, not necessarily limited to T10.