Anonymous wrote:Sorry, my oldest is a sophomore so I’m just learning how this works. They admitted over 6000 early for about 3700 spots. I understand expecting a low yield but that still doesn’t leave much room for Regu[l]ar decision candidates.

Yup. Over the past few years it has looked as if regular, non-early, applicants to the top 50 or so undergraduate schools are basically out in the cold. Huge numbers of applicants are admitted through early programs, whether binding-decision or non-binding-action. Huge chunks of the class expressly commit early or come pretty close and so 75% of the applicants are left to compete for a small slice of remaining slots. If we had it to do all over again ...

I don't know about you, but I'm just amazed at how good these applicants are on collegeconfidential. There's no way my current UVA kid (senior) would get in today compared to this:

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My DD:

EARLY ACTION DECISION: ACCEPTED!
Planned Major/ College: Double major in Biochem & French, Arts and Sciences

Residency: OOS (GA)
SAT/ACT: 1540 SAT, 36 (36, 36, 36, 36) ACT, both in 1 sitting
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry (800), Math II (800), US History (800)
AP: 16 APs - AP Bio (5), AP Human (5), AP World (5), AP Lang (5), AP Chem (5), APUSH (5), AP Gov (5), AP Calc B/C (5), AP Lit, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Physics 1, AP Stat, AP French, AP Comp Gov
GPA- 3.98 unweighted, 4.68 weighted
Rank: N/A, but received GA Certificate of Merit (Top 5%)
Ethnicity: Mixed race (White/Asian)
Gender: Female
Extras/ Volunteer Work/ Talents/ Jobs- Captain of HS Quiz Bowl team, Captain of Swim and Dive Team, 4-year letterman, club swimming, 200+ service hours, teaching French to elementary schoolers, Student Leadership (2 year program), Secretary of State Student Ambassadors (won statewide competition), lots of honor societies, National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, 1st Place at Nationals in Journalism (FBLA), interned with congressional campaign, interned at small investment company, coaching/ participating in summer swim, paid and peer tutoring

Demonstration of Good Character- Very involved in political activism, good amount of peer tutoring

Any hooks? Girl in STEM, maybe

Thoughts on why you received that decision: My daughter put a lot of effort into writing her essays.

Congrats to everyone else who got accepted! And good luck to everyone who got deferred!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

Students are evaluated within the context of his school. So if he's one of relatively few taking rigorous courses and doing well he will have a better chance of admission than a student taking the exact same courseload with the same stats at a school where a larger percentage of the students are equally strong.

+1. Another example would be if he were at Langley or Mclean (or TJ), which are "high performing high schools", the competition for the UVA slots is fierce.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

Students are evaluated within the context of his school. So if he's one of relatively few taking rigorous courses and doing well he will have a better chance of admission than a student taking the exact same courseload with the same stats at a school where a larger percentage of the students are equally strong.

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

What does an ‘underperforming high school’ have to do with anything?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

Curious, PP--did the high school have many students who applied to UVA?

Not commenting or snarling, genuinely trying to figure out the alchemy.

If you don't mind saying, what county? FCPS?

Ugh, supposed to be not "snarking"! Sorry

Anonymous wrote:Accepted!
No-hooks affluent white male
In state, NOVA
1410/33
4.2 weighted gpa
Very rigorous courseload at underperforming public high school (over 50% free/reduced lunch)
One varsity sport and one other leadership extracurricular

Curious, PP--did the high school have many students who applied to UVA?

Not commenting or snarling, genuinely trying to figure out the alchemy.

Any insight into how EA deferrals get accepted in the RD round?

Sorry, my oldest is a sophomore so I’m just learning how this works. They admitted over 6000 early for about 3700 spots. I understand expecting a low yield but that still doesn’t leave much room for Regukar decision candidates.