Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 20:23     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.


Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.


Not OP, but UMd is much better than UVa with engineering and computer science.


Hardly


Those who want to go to a Va school for engineering and computer science pick VTech over UVa.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 18:57     Subject: Re:Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote: From what I gather, UVA typically accepts the top 10% of Langley or about 50 kids each year. About 30 kids from Langley go to UVA each year. This year I hear 12 Langley grads are going to UVA. So it seems like a big change to me. Maybe it's an odd blip maybe not.

I doubt that Langley Class of 2013 had half the talent of previous years. So maybe UVA is just not that into Langley anymore?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 18:43     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:Pool chat among the moms is that UVA seems to be accepting less (otherwise well qualified) kids from FCPS than previous years. This seems to be something more/different from simply "UVA is highly selective." Many of the rejected kids are going OOS and usually to higher ranked schools.


Do you mean that UVa is admitting less-qualified students, as in, students who are not as well qualified? Or fewer qualified students, meaning it is harder to get in? It sounds like the latter, but the former would be interesting.

I have a HS student and live in NoVa, so am following these conversations with interest, though being from elsewhere myself, can't see much appeal of UVa over William & Mary, if you're looking for public tuition.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 18:22     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.


Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.


Maryland resident here who has a degree in CS from UVA; the MD CS department is definitely better than the UVA CS department. If the better CS experience/opportunities are more important than being at a (IMO) significantly nicer place to spend 4 years then they definitely did not make a mistake.


Great if Student definitely wants CS. No So Great if Student thinks that CS is the way to go but opts to change majors after the first year. At least UVA has many other strong options, unlike UMD. Combine that with in-state tuition and UVA is therefore a better choice.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 18:14     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:Grew up in Hampton, Va. Bad, bad neighborhood, bad schools. If you were a reasonably decent A/B student, and did well on your SATs (there were about 20-30 of us in my HS class of around 1000 kids), you were a shoe in for UVA and W&M. Not everyone chose those schools, because other VA publics and some privates gave loads of scholarship money. When you are one of a handful of kids from your school, in an impoverished area, to do well, it's just a lot more impressive than a rich kid from FCPS. It has been this way for at least 15 years. So I always laugh at all the fighting and scrapping that goes on in FCPS as to which HS you are zoned for. If you really care about college admissions, move to Tidewater or Pennington Gap.

No thanks. Given the choice, I'll pay tuition to OOS U.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 17:34     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Grew up in Hampton, Va. Bad, bad neighborhood, bad schools. If you were a reasonably decent A/B student, and did well on your SATs (there were about 20-30 of us in my HS class of around 1000 kids), you were a shoe in for UVA and W&M. Not everyone chose those schools, because other VA publics and some privates gave loads of scholarship money. When you are one of a handful of kids from your school, in an impoverished area, to do well, it's just a lot more impressive than a rich kid from FCPS. It has been this way for at least 15 years. So I always laugh at all the fighting and scrapping that goes on in FCPS as to which HS you are zoned for. If you really care about college admissions, move to Tidewater or Pennington Gap.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 15:03     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.


Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.


Maryland resident here who has a degree in CS from UVA; the MD CS department is definitely better than the UVA CS department. If the better CS experience/opportunities are more important than being at a (IMO) significantly nicer place to spend 4 years then they definitely did not make a mistake.


Actually, most people would rather be in college park, since Charlottesville is in the middle of nowhere and amazingly has a higher violent crime rate. Umd's location is why is has far more Nobel and Pulitzer winning faculty than UVA . Additionally , because of its location , Umd has installations of NASA , NIH , FDA , NOAA , HHS , homeland security, the national weather prediction center, the international foreign language institute, the national archives and the American physics institute ON CAMPUS.

Not everybody goes for the remote southern plantation atmosphere .
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 14:55     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:Fine for them. Not fine for the better qualified, hard-working NOVA student who is punished for having the misfortune of living in the wrong part of the state.

So because your child was hard-working they should just be accepted?
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 14:53     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Also, by state law, roughly 30% of UVa acceptees are from out of state because they pay higher tuition than in-state students. Essentially, out-of-state students help to subsidize the cost of education for in-state students.

This is very true. Signed, UVA grad
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 14:42     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Got in but ds went to Umd for computer science.


Maryland resident here so I love UMD but your son made a mistake.


Maryland resident here who has a degree in CS from UVA; the MD CS department is definitely better than the UVA CS department. If the better CS experience/opportunities are more important than being at a (IMO) significantly nicer place to spend 4 years then they definitely did not make a mistake.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 11:15     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Anonymous wrote:UVA accepts 1/3 out of state bec Jefferson wanted a national university. Of course it helps with the budget too.

Pretty sure the % of out of staters required/permitted is set by VA legislature.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 09:27     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
UVA accepts 1/3 out of state bec Jefferson wanted a national university. Of course it helps with the budget too.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 08:02     Subject: Re:Did your senior get into UVA?
From what I gather, UVA typically accepts the top 10% of Langley or about 50 kids each year. About 30 kids from Langley go to UVA each year. This year I hear 12 Langley grads are going to UVA. So it seems like a big change to me. Maybe it's an odd blip maybe not.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2013 07:26     Subject: Did your senior get into UVA?
Fine for them. Not fine for the better qualified, hard-working NOVA student who is punished for having the misfortune of living in the wrong part of the state.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2013 18:59     Subject: Re:Did your senior get into UVA?
I went there. And honestly, it was sometimes obvious when a student was admitted from another part of the state. The school works to represent students from all over the state so there are students, IMHO, who wouldn't have been admitted had they been against some of the NoVA students. But that's fine, it added to the diversity.