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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.

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UVA thinks your DC is going to an ivy, OP. I have seen similar stats get rejected from UVA, more than a few times. UVA wants sob stories, not outstanding stats.

This happened to my son applying to the engineering program years ago (36 ACT), but we're from Maryland. They were actually correct...he wouldn't have gone there if accepted. I doubt very much this truly happened to a VA resident for yield protection reasons. This has to be a troll.

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Because we all know what is happening. white and asian high stats kids can't get into top publics anymore. That is what is being unsaid

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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.

More likely there was some other reason. Shit essays, most likely.

What are the chances a kid with great stats and achievements writes an essay SO terrible it negates the more important factors??? None.

Uh a kid with great stats might have horrible social skills & a complete lack of self-awareness. That could be obvious in an essay.

Or a lack of empathy, or simple lack of passion. Schools don't just want high-performing kids but kids who perform well because they care deeply about their interests.

These are true, no doubt. But it doesn't explain the trend this year where SO MANY high stats kids landed lower than would have been expected based on (recent!) history from their own high schools.

Colleges don’t only want kids from wealthy suburban high schools anymore.

Agreed completely. Very apparent this year - a marked shift. Yet many on DCUM fail to believe it (choosing instead to point fingers or find fault). Heed the warning flares people....be prepared.

The Instagram College Decisions pages from these high schools tell a different story.

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It's almost as if this small group of sour grapes posters feels they can keep repeating nonsense and people will just accept it as fact. Meanwhile, reality looks nothing like they describe.

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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.

More likely there was some other reason. Shit essays, most likely.

What are the chances a kid with great stats and achievements writes an essay SO terrible it negates the more important factors??? None.

Uh a kid with great stats might have horrible social skills & a complete lack of self-awareness. That could be obvious in an essay.

Or a lack of empathy, or simple lack of passion. Schools don't just want high-performing kids but kids who perform well because they care deeply about their interests.

This is the dumbest BS I've ever heard! So why the F should a college care why a kid performs as long as he does?! The 4.6 kid shows that he can perform through his grades (and there aren't enough fufu APs so he must have taken some tough ones). What in the application led the idiot AO to think this kid doesn't have 'passion'? passion for what? Or that the kid lacks empathy?

The kid is likely Asian or White and this is a clear case of yield protection (I know, they don't do yield protection You idiots can believe that).

Plenty of schools DO care about what sort of human being you are....

Awesome! Would love to hear about how they determine that? Would be great if these fools can be forced to share on demand (for a fee of course) how an application was reviewed, all the notes associated with it, etc. so they can decide if they were assessed fairly. I bet that there's nothing fancy going on here. Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity. Don't kid yourself..

Know how I know you don't know any AOs and have never had a substantive conversation with one?

Know how I know you don't know how to answer any questions and use deflection to feel good?

But you are the one making the claim that "Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity.". Show some evidence of that please.

You can't because the opposite is true. Most AOs I have met work hard and genuinely care and try to do a good job based on their given institutional preferences, despite being underpaid. You don't like them, and I won't make the same mistake as you and speculate why.

There's enough out there (google) about temps being hired to review college admissions applications. There was a thread on that not too long ago.

Either way, you never answered my simple question "How do AOs (even the non-temps) divine someone's 'lack of passion, lack of empathy' or determine 'what sort of human' a child is"?

As for yield protection, it does happen at UVA AND Virginia Tech. Not officially, but know enough kids who got into much better schools over the past 3 years that didn't make it into these two - same common app essay, similar good responses to individual questions and with stats above the cutoffs at both schools. Just parroting the party line doesn't change reality. Anecdotal? yes..but enough anecdotes become data and data over time shows trend. I've seen it.

Don't really give a S whether you agree or not, but for awareness of parents with kids who may apply to these schools in the future.

Anonymous wrote:Who got into UVA in the ED round at my DC’s majority-minority fcps high school? 10 kids. Mostly UMC white girls, and one non-FARMS URM student. The admitted boys are also UMC white kids. At least at my kid’s school, not much of an advantage to being URM.

You don’t understand. For this crowd, white means qualified. Non white means not.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing to me that a parent and readers see 4.6 and yet nobody is asking “ in what?”

The classes matter people. You can’t just say I had a 4.6 and whine about it and don’t know mention the classes on the transcript over 4 years.

My kids go to McLean HS and you CANNOT reach a 4.6 without taking as many AP classes as you can fit into your schedule. That means most of your core classes have to be APs. Sure there is some leeway so that you can take AP Envir Sci instead of AP Chem but you cannot skip out on many of the hard APs in your core classes and reach a gpa as high as 4.6. With a gpa of 4.6, you have to assume the rigor is there.

So 4 years of rigor and intense focus are there, on the record. And yet:

- some posters are theorizing the student was completely clueless on the essay? He had no idea what his dream university might value in an essay??

Puh-leeze! That makes no sense whatsoever.

Yield protection makes perfect sense here.

You are making no sense. UVA doesn't yield protect. SCHEV shows the 75th percentile has a 4.5, 35 AT or 1520 SAT in THE MOST RIGOROUS courses, which is how they have a 4.53. That's how you get in to UVA. It doesn't need to yield protect with 53,000 applications and, as a public, it doesn't have the resources to devote to yield protection

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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.

More likely there was some other reason. Shit essays, most likely.

What are the chances a kid with great stats and achievements writes an essay SO terrible it negates the more important factors??? None.

Uh a kid with great stats might have horrible social skills & a complete lack of self-awareness. That could be obvious in an essay.

Or a lack of empathy, or simple lack of passion. Schools don't just want high-performing kids but kids who perform well because they care deeply about their interests.

This is the dumbest BS I've ever heard! So why the F should a college care why a kid performs as long as he does?! The 4.6 kid shows that he can perform through his grades (and there aren't enough fufu APs so he must have taken some tough ones). What in the application led the idiot AO to think this kid doesn't have 'passion'? passion for what? Or that the kid lacks empathy?

The kid is likely Asian or White and this is a clear case of yield protection (I know, they don't do yield protection You idiots can believe that).

Plenty of schools DO care about what sort of human being you are....

Awesome! Would love to hear about how they determine that? Would be great if these fools can be forced to share on demand (for a fee of course) how an application was reviewed, all the notes associated with it, etc. so they can decide if they were assessed fairly. I bet that there's nothing fancy going on here. Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity. Don't kid yourself..

Know how I know you don't know any AOs and have never had a substantive conversation with one?

Know how I know you don't know how to answer any questions and use deflection to feel good?

But you are the one making the claim that "Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity.". Show some evidence of that please.

You can't because the opposite is true. Most AOs I have met work hard and genuinely care and try to do a good job based on their given institutional preferences, despite being underpaid. You don't like them, and I won't make the same mistake as you and speculate why.

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Anonymous wrote:Yield protection. They make the crappy decision he likely would not attend...which given that out of state and private schools can be from $60-80K for donut hole families is really crappy.

More likely there was some other reason. Shit essays, most likely.

What are the chances a kid with great stats and achievements writes an essay SO terrible it negates the more important factors??? None.

Uh a kid with great stats might have horrible social skills & a complete lack of self-awareness. That could be obvious in an essay.

Or a lack of empathy, or simple lack of passion. Schools don't just want high-performing kids but kids who perform well because they care deeply about their interests.

This is the dumbest BS I've ever heard! So why the F should a college care why a kid performs as long as he does?! The 4.6 kid shows that he can perform through his grades (and there aren't enough fufu APs so he must have taken some tough ones). What in the application led the idiot AO to think this kid doesn't have 'passion'? passion for what? Or that the kid lacks empathy?

The kid is likely Asian or White and this is a clear case of yield protection (I know, they don't do yield protection You idiots can believe that).

Plenty of schools DO care about what sort of human being you are....

Awesome! Would love to hear about how they determine that? Would be great if these fools can be forced to share on demand (for a fee of course) how an application was reviewed, all the notes associated with it, etc. so they can decide if they were assessed fairly. I bet that there's nothing fancy going on here. Most of these AOs are underpaid temps and they likely don't care enough to delve into the finer aspects of humanity. Don't kid yourself..

Know how I know you don't know any AOs and have never had a substantive conversation with one?

Know how I know you don't know how to answer any questions and use deflection to feel good?

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Anonymous wrote:Who got into UVA in the ED round at my DC’s majority-minority fcps high school? 10 kids. Mostly UMC white girls, and one non-FARMS URM student. The admitted boys are also UMC white kids. At least at my kid’s school, not much of an advantage to being URM.

Are the URM kids applying to UVA?

Hard to tell.