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Anonymous wrote:This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

My son is a senior at one of the bottom 50% of all schools in Virginia. He has a 2.8 GPA and SAT score of 1000, after multiple attempts. He gets accepted to UVA to play football there in December.

Sports ruin the illusion of prestige.
UVA admitted this kid, and they expect he will succeed there and graduate.
So why do all the other students have to be the best and brightest if any below-average student can be successful there?

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Anonymous wrote:This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

My son is a senior at one of the bottom 50% of all schools in Virginia. He has a 2.8 GPA and SAT score of 1000, after multiple attempts. He gets accepted to UVA to play football there in December.

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Anonymous wrote:This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

My son is a senior at one of the bottom 50% of all schools in Virginia. He has a 2.8 GPA and SAT score of 1000, after multiple attempts. He gets accepted to UVA to play football there in December.

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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.

For the right kid, there is a far better chances of getting into selective colleges from the high schools considered to be lesser on these boards. It kind of cuts against buying the house in the best school pyramid you can afford when your kids are in kindergarten.

My 36 ACT kid with hi gpa and strong ECs from MD was denied. He attends a private school where half his classmates are VA residents. Understandable outcome.

This may work for in-state admissions, but not at most nationally ranked schools. Also, how short-sighted of the parents - don’t you want your child prepared for college work?

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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.

For the right kid, there is a far better chances of getting into selective colleges from the high schools considered to be lesser on these boards. It kind of cuts against buying the house in the best school pyramid you can afford when your kids are in kindergarten.

I totally agree. And even though UVA denies it, I also strongly believe they have a quota for the number of kids they admit from each high school. My DS graduated from one of the lowest performing schools in FCPS. He was admitted to W&M and UVA with lower stats without any hooks (he was actually below 25% in reading on the SAT according to their common data sets.) His best friend, who went to a high performing private school and had almost the same extracurriculars but higher stats, was rejected from UVA (didn't apply to W&M.)

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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.

For the right kid, there is a far better chances of getting into selective colleges from the high schools considered to be lesser on these boards. It kind of cuts against buying the house in the best school pyramid you can afford when your kids are in kindergarten.

My 36 ACT kid with hi gpa and strong ECs from MD was denied. He attends a private school where half his classmates are VA residents. Understandable outcome.

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Anonymous wrote: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:

MathMomGA
MathMomGA
Registered User
Posts: 2
New Member
Today at 10:16 pm
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!

This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

For the right kid, there is a far better chances of getting into selective colleges from the high schools considered to be lesser on these boards. It kind of cuts against buying the house in the best school pyramid you can afford when your kids are in kindergarten.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

For the right kid, there is a far better chances of getting into selective colleges from the high schools considered to be lesser on these boards. It kind of cuts against buying the house in the best school pyramid you can afford when your kids are in kindergarten.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is in!!!

NoVA, SAT:1490, GPA: 4.3, strong in Math

DS is also in at UVA

Nova, SAT: 870, GPA: 2.6. Signed National Letter of Intent on Dec 19th 2018

Is this a joke?

Football player.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

My son is a senior at one of the bottom 50% of all schools in Virginia. He has a 2.8 GPA and SAT score of 1000, after multiple attempts. He gets accepted to UVA to play football there in December.

Anonymous wrote:This almost seems unreal. My ds was accepted, as were a few of his friends from his HS, and they didn't have applications that looked like this. This seems like an outlier to me.

Anonymous wrote: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:

MathMomGA
MathMomGA
Registered User
Posts: 2
New Member
Today at 10:16 pm
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!