Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:29     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of these posts underscore that VA really needs to return to SAT required.

The JMU and UVA posts are a particular travesty.

Why is this a travesty if the student is now in college getting good grades and contributing positively to the school community?


because their kid is obviously superior! I’m the pp with the UVA DS with a 3.9++ in college and a 1380 sat. He got into two competitive application based majors too! The horror! You know what, he’s probably the nicest guy at UVA, plays a club sport and is a musician. Pretty sure he has added to the community. But of course pps kid deserved the spot because they test better in standardized tests.


It’s typical DCUM entitlement. You’d think we’d be used to it by now.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:25     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2023/07/10/30-highly-respected-public-universities-that-accept-over-50-of-students-who-apply/?sh=6a3e18f15722


That list is all giant state schools though. Good schools, but a lot of the kids I know do not apply to even one giant state school.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:22     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
My DD had a 28 ACT which is roughly equivalent to a 1350ish SAT. She got in to several schools with merit aid - U of Iowa, Delaware, Penn State, Michigan State - and into Syracuse (no merit). Michigan State gave her their top merit award and that’s where she’s going. But she def had options! (She wanted a big school so didn’t apply to any smaller schools, just for reference).
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:19     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of these posts underscore that VA really needs to return to SAT required.

The JMU and UVA posts are a particular travesty.

Why is this a travesty if the student is now in college getting good grades and contributing positively to the school community?


because their kid is obviously superior! I’m the pp with the UVA DS with a 3.9++ in college and a 1380 sat. He got into two competitive application based majors too! The horror! You know what, he’s probably the nicest guy at UVA, plays a club sport and is a musician. Pretty sure he has added to the community. But of course pps kid deserved the spot because they test better in standardized tests.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:16     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:My neice got a 1350 and will be attending UVA. I think you just need to get your score in the ballpark - even if it is on the lower end (and of course make sure that your GPA, activities, essay and recs are good too). She did get waitlisted for W&M.


I heard it helps if you include a a c-note with the application.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:15     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:Some of these posts underscore that VA really needs to return to SAT required.

The JMU and UVA posts are a particular travesty.

Why is this a travesty if the student is now in college getting good grades and contributing positively to the school community?
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 08:10     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
I really think the major might matter at some of these schools.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 07:45     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:Some of these posts underscore that VA really needs to return to SAT required.

The JMU and UVA posts are a particular travesty.


Sounds to me like most of the UVA people submitted scores.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 07:44     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are they happy? Where did they apply and get in/not get in? Merit anywhere?


In at UVA, UCSD, UCSB - offered significant merit at two 'Likely' schools.


How on earth did a kid with that SAT get into UVA?

I have 2 kids over 1500 with exceptional stats, good enough to be accepted to top 10 universities, who were rejected from UVA. We know of several kids from our high school who this happened to.

I am sorry, but a kid with those stats should not have been accepted at UVA over a kid with 1500 or above.


Perhaps you should take this up with the Admissions Officer. And get over it.


People like the PP just don't understand how the process works. The schools do not accept students based on some sliding scale, starting with the highest scores and going down from there. The scores are one part of a whole picture. The reason they are going back to test required is to see more students with a wide range of qualifications--to be able to admit more students with 1400 and under. A 1300 SAT shows clearly that students can do the work, at any university. I cannot believe how dense parents of kids with 1500s, but little else, are about the admissions process. My 28 ACT DD has a 3.92 GPA in her junior year at Georgetown. As you know, they never went TO. They know how to look at students holistically. People like the PP should be ashamed of themselves for being so judgemental of students who score below 1400.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 07:34     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are they happy? Where did they apply and get in/not get in? Merit anywhere?


In at UVA, UCSD, UCSB - offered significant merit at two 'Likely' schools.


How on earth did a kid with that SAT get into UVA?

I have 2 kids over 1500 with exceptional stats, good enough to be accepted to top 10 universities, who were rejected from UVA. We know of several kids from our high school who this happened to.

I am sorry, but a kid with those stats should not have been accepted at UVA over a kid with 1500 or above.


Perhaps you should take this up with the Admissions Officer. And get over it.
Anonymous
Post 04/09/2024 06:10     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
My kid got an 1130 or so the one time he took the SATs. He applied TO everywhere and got in everywhere with a 3.1 gpa. He’s at Loyola MD now with a great merit award. He got good awards from most of the other schools too- Drexel, UMBC, St Joes, La Salle, Manhattan, etc.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 23:34     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:My daughter's sat's were just under 1200, gpa was i think 3.85 or so, extracurriculars were good, she applied and did second performance interviews for the department at most of these schools because she's a dance major. She got into almost all she applied to: American, JMU, George Mason, Radnor, VCU. A couple others I can't remember. She ended up choosing Towson and got 2 k in merit aid. She loves it there. She was swiftly rejected by Montclair State in nj in the dance department (though accepted to the school). They are one of the most competitive dance programs in part because all dance majors pay in state tuition even from other states. And it's just a well known program. I had hoped she would apply to small or medium liberal arts colleges on the east coast with better names and status. That's not where the best dance programs were. She knew that and did what she wanted. And it served her well, I'm proud she followed her own plan.


Congratulations.

Is she classical dance or commercial dance?
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 23:32     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
My daughter's sat's were just under 1200, gpa was i think 3.85 or so, extracurriculars were good, she applied and did second performance interviews for the department at most of these schools because she's a dance major. She got into almost all she applied to: American, JMU, George Mason, Radnor, VCU. A couple others I can't remember. She ended up choosing Towson and got 2 k in merit aid. She loves it there. She was swiftly rejected by Montclair State in nj in the dance department (though accepted to the school). They are one of the most competitive dance programs in part because all dance majors pay in state tuition even from other states. And it's just a well known program. I had hoped she would apply to small or medium liberal arts colleges on the east coast with better names and status. That's not where the best dance programs were. She knew that and did what she wanted. And it served her well, I'm proud she followed her own plan.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 23:32     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Some of these posts underscore that VA really needs to return to SAT required.

The JMU and UVA posts are a particular travesty.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 23:31     Subject: Where are your UNDER 1400 SAT kids going?
Anonymous wrote:DD had 1310 but got in at UVA!



Test optional???