Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not this again...

That poster should retract his/her statement: "Don’t bother applying with less."

Read this recent thread. It will give you an accurate read on how difficult it is. Note most of those accepted hit the 75th percentile (GPA 4.5+; 1510 +SAT; 35+ ACT. Ten to 12 AP courses. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1311723.page

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not in our case. Reading DCUM I'd have thought that we'd have had no chance.

And you were extremely lucky, a solid STEM applicant or most likely hooked. For 99% of the applicants, they need to take UVA’s “recommended four years” of a world language very seriously. That’s why Dean J says that. Coukd be worse. Princeton “requires” four years.

Cite 99%.
There are certainly more than 1% that are solid STEM kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the school. By far the hardest school to be from is TJHSST.

+1

[b]Second hardest is McLean, followed by Langley. Very difficult admits.

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McLean and Langley are equally difficult. There are a lot of superlative kids in those schools with the statistics and GPA needed, the 12 AP courses, etc and they are all shooting for Ivies and UVA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not in our case. Reading DCUM I'd have thought that we'd have had no chance.

And you were extremely lucky, a solid STEM applicant or most likely hooked. For 99% of the applicants, they need to take UVA’s “recommended four years” of a world language very seriously. That’s why Dean J says that. Coukd be worse. Princeton “requires” four years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the school. By far the hardest school to be from is TJHSST.

+1

Second hardest is McLean, followed by Langley. Very difficult admits.

How do you know the admission stats from three different schools? How do you determine rank?

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Kid just got in EA to arts and sciences from TJ with only up to 3rd year of language. (Took language in 9th and 10th grade only)

Older DC (from top FCPS not TJ) took one year of a language freshman year then switched to a new language and took that one for 3 years. Also accepted EA to arts and sciences.

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not this again...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not in our case. Reading DCUM I'd have thought that we'd have had no chance.

+1. DC did take through level 4, with a year in middle school. Also took AP Lang but not AP Lit. Just got in EA.

Yup. Same. Engineering. (But AP Lit and Lang)

Anonymous wrote:from Meridian easy--many mid candidates get in

really??! It is very hard from McLean. Yes, lots of kids get in but there are many more high achieving kids who don't.

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the school. By far the hardest school to be from is TJHSST.

+1

Second hardest is McLean, followed by Langley. Very difficult admits.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not in our case. Reading DCUM I'd have thought that we'd have had no chance.

+1. DC did take through level 4, with a year in middle school. Also took AP Lang but not AP Lit. Just got in EA.

Anonymous wrote:Just be sure to take at least four years of foreign language. Don’t bother applying with less.

Not in our case. Reading DCUM I'd have thought that we'd have had no chance.

Depends on the school. By far the hardest school to be from is TJHSST.

SCHEV provides useful tools and graphs that show the number of students from NOVA who applied to UVA and were admitted. It looks like in 2024, 8670 students from NOVA applied, and 2029 were accepted. A 23% admittance rate, which coincidentally is their overall admittance rate for in-state students.

https://research.schev.edu///rdPage.aspx?rdReport=Enrollment.Admission_FTIC_Draw&rdRequestForwarding=Form