Anonymous
Post 03/26/2017 21:44     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Just to clarify, because 667 seemed impossibly small, given that TJ alone sends over 80 kids to UVA a year. 677 memebers of the class of 2020 from Fairfax. Not total undergrades or total students. Kicking out TJ, that's 24 kids on average per FCPS HS. Of course, some as from private, etc. Given that not every top kid chooses UVA, that seems reasonable.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2017 21:15     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Affirmative action for trump country - that's really what this is. Call it what it is
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2017 17:36     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:As of about five years ago I was told that while there is a cap on kids from NoVA, they exceed it every year.
Who told you this? It seems UVA goes out of their way to provide numbers about geographic distribution to counter this.

Has anyone seen similar imaps from W&M, Tech, or JMU?
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2017 16:19     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
As of about five years ago I was told that while there is a cap on kids from NoVA, they exceed it every year. From that information I take away that there are a lot of students in Northern Virginia who can excel there, and many of them still don't get in.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 14:35     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Scroll down to UVA enrollment by municipality. Most of the counties to the SW have zero to no students accepted. http://digital.uvamagazine.org/articles/2020-insight/
The map is for enrollment, not admissions.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 13:43     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It seems like the student enrollment is in line with the population density. Wonder if admissions is the same?

Best represented counties
1. Fairfax 667 students
2. Loudon 220
3. Henrico 132



UVA feasts off of nova. It's where most of the top in state students are.



Of course, but 667 from Fairfax County isn't fair considering the number of public high schools and all the kids going to the great privates in the DMV area. A few years back a legislator tried to introduce a bill that would give FCPS 100 more seats at UVA and I pointed out that meant that Langley might get four of those and that wasn't going to help the situation. Langley will not help an A- get into UVA, not when they have 70 kids with GPAs over 4.0. Those are the kids the publics will support, write letters for and talk to admissions about.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 11:51     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Without NoVa kids, for the most part Uva would = UWva.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 09:23     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:It seems like the student enrollment is in line with the population density. Wonder if admissions is the same?

Best represented counties
1. Fairfax 667 students
2. Loudon 220
3. Henrico 132



UVA feasts off of nova. It's where most of the top in state students are.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 09:22     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. A 2310 from coal country would waltz right in. Not my kid though.



You;re confusing West Virginia with Virginia. NO coal mining in Virginia.


FALSE.



Coal mining is only in the SW part of the Virginia, dying off, near Kentucky. In the Appalachian mtns. As in the map posted above, UVA takes zero to one student from those counties. If more applied that were qualified, I'm sure they would get in, so stop the red-neck jokes. It's racist and bigoted.


Um, not sure who you are ranting at. I merely pointed out that the assertion that VA has no coal mining is patently false.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 09:20     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Scroll down to UVA enrollment by municipality. Most of the counties to the SW have zero to no students accepted. http://digital.uvamagazine.org/articles/2020-insight/
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 09:08     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
You can't tell me all the counties with zero or one students going to UVA on the SW part of the state have zero high school students.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 08:57     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
It seems like the student enrollment is in line with the population density. Wonder if admissions is the same?

Best represented counties
1. Fairfax 667 students
2. Loudon 220
3. Henrico 132

Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 08:52     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. A 2310 from coal country would waltz right in. Not my kid though.



You;re confusing West Virginia with Virginia. NO coal mining in Virginia.


FALSE.



Coal mining is only in the SW part of the Virginia, dying off, near Kentucky. In the Appalachian mtns. As in the map posted above, UVA takes zero to one student from those counties. If more applied that were qualified, I'm sure they would get in, so stop the red-neck jokes. It's racist and bigoted.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 08:28     Subject: Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. A 2310 from coal country would waltz right in. Not my kid though.



You;re confusing West Virginia with Virginia. NO coal mining in Virginia.


FALSE.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2017 08:26     Subject: Re:Is there a "NOVA penalty" for UVA?
UVA has room to grow even more without sacrificing any of its elite status.