Anonymous
Post 03/26/2021 09:07     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?


? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper. They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.


This is true. Virginia's public universities compare favorably with most public universities around here (Maryland's non-flagship schools leave much to be desired). JMU, VCU and GMU also compare favorably to the directional schools in most states.

We in NOVA are being forced to accept UVA, VT and W&M become inaccessible to most of our kids. It is like UCLA and UCB in California; those are also quite hard to get into, but the other UC schools (SB, for example) have good reputations, but not as well known as UCB and UCLA.

Of course, this begs the question of why VA has become like CA. Demographics, population growth, the admissions priorities of UVA/VT/W&M all come into play.

The most difficult part of this transition is having VT go from 70% acceptance to more like 40-50% acceptance in a single year. That eliminated a "swing" supplier which would have absorbed folks who couldn't get into UVA or W&M. For that, you can blame the pandemic, admissions priorities, Amazon/Bezos (the tieup with VT), the 2019 yield debacle, etc.

Thus, our choices are either accept going to the 2nd or even 3rd tier VA publics, or save up and go private or OOS. In this status-conscious, high-achieving area, that is difficult to accept and to do, but the situation is just going to get worse.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2021 08:32     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?


? There are lots of good public universities in Virginia, all of which except W&M are cheaper. They'll go to University of Mary Washington, or Radford or CNU or JMU or GMU, or VCU, etc.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 23:00     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA



Congratulations!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 22:59     Subject: Re:UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:Accepted: in state (NOVA), 4.48 W, test-optional, goodish essays, ib school (a lower ranked one), few ECs related to major and show initiative


Congrats!
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 22:58     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?



They do what we did: you ho to one of the other 40 public colleges in the Commonwealth.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:55     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


WOW
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:41     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


Yikes. I know soooo many parents who are counting on “only” having to pay in state UVA tuition and aren’t saving beyond that for a private college. What are they going to do when it turns out their kid isn’t accepted?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:31     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.


I know 4 in state kids that started UVA this year as second years. Attended schools ranked much lower for one year and transferred in. All were accepted. No way they were getting in straight out of high school. This seems like the way to go if you really want UVA.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:27     Subject: Re:UVA RD is Out!
Accepted: in state (NOVA), 4.48 W, test-optional, goodish essays, ib school (a lower ranked one), few ECs related to major and show initiative
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:26     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
So basically 2 RD admits per Virginia High School. Speechless.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 19:17     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 18:50     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it's safe to say that those getting in submitted test scores and did not go test-optional.


28% of accepted students did not submit scores


putting it another way...72% of the accepted kids submit test scores.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 18:34     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
In from deferred EA

Nova, 1460 SAT, 4.5 GPA
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 18:30     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Anonymous wrote:Rejected. In state


I'm sorry, stats?
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2021 18:28     Subject: UVA RD is Out!
Rejected. In state