Anonymous wrote:Has anyone's kid gotten Echols Scholar in-state?

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Anonymous wrote:^^ UVA needs to increase its share of first-generation students to compete with UCLA and UMich. It will improve its US news ranking. 695 offered in EA/ED round is actually not that many. UVA makes roughly 9000 offers each year. So it's not even 10%. UVA's yield is only around 40%. Don't equate the admitted number with the final enrollment.

So this is another exercise in colleges slavishly doing whatever is needed to jump
In the rankings. Public universities should not be playing that game.

Perhaps UVA needs to grow a bit. Virginia has 8.5 million residents and its flagship only serves 17,000 undergraduates, 35% of whom are OOS. You can have a highly ranked elite public school with 30,000 undergraduates. Berkeley, Michigan, and UCLA seem to manage it quite well.

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Anonymous wrote:"supporting an organization that hid child molestation."


For real? That is terrible!!

oh stop it. Grow up. Do you really think the Council “knowingly” supported Child molestation like the Catholic Church. Do you want a detailed list of all of the meetings and conferences and clearances he had to go through to be a VOLUNTEER scoutmaster?

Yep, quite a lot like the Catholic Church, actually. Truly sad and embarrassing that scout defenders won’t acknowledge what happened. Look up the “p list”. The organization hid this problem for years. Then they ran like cowards behind bankruptcy. It has nothing to do with your kid’s work. Scout organization is disgusting. But it won’t change your mind. There’s nothing that could, clearly.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ UVA needs to increase its share of first-generation students to compete with UCLA and UMich. It will improve its US news ranking. 695 offered in EA/ED round is actually not that many. UVA makes roughly 9000 offers each year. So it's not even 10%. UVA's yield is only around 40%. Don't equate the admitted number with the final enrollment.

So this is another exercise in colleges slavishly doing whatever is needed to jump
In the rankings. Public universities should not be playing that game.

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Anonymous wrote:"supporting an organization that hid child molestation."


For real? That is terrible!!

oh stop it. Grow up. Do you really think the Council “knowingly” supported Child molestation like the Catholic Church. Do you want a detailed list of all of the meetings and conferences and clearances he had to go through to be a VOLUNTEER scoutmaster?

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Yes they do, especially if they show grit and ability to finish a lengthy, complicated project on time. Like Eagle Scouts or Gold Award.

Do you really think being an Eagle Scout shows “grit”? LOL

I think Eagle Scout has a lot of tasks but every ES I know built a bench or a wooden path for some entity they were already members (church, previous PS, neighborhood) and is GoFundMe for supplies. Yes, the very definition of grit

😂

You clearly don’t know what it takes to make Eagle.

Then tell us what is so great? :crickets:

Anonymous wrote:"supporting an organization that hid child molestation."


For real? That is terrible!!

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Yes they do, especially if they show grit and ability to finish a lengthy, complicated project on time. Like Eagle Scouts or Gold Award.

Do you really think being an Eagle Scout shows “grit”? LOL

I think Eagle Scout has a lot of tasks but every ES I know built a bench or a wooden path for some entity they were already members (church, previous PS, neighborhood) and is GoFundMe for supplies. Yes, the very definition of grit

😂

You clearly don’t know what it takes to make Eagle.

Then tell us what is so great? :crickets:

For a start, supporting an organization that hid child molestation. But if that helps little Johnny get into Princeton then we’ll just let bygones be bygones.

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Yes they do, especially if they show grit and ability to finish a lengthy, complicated project on time. Like Eagle Scouts or Gold Award.

Do you really think being an Eagle Scout shows “grit”? LOL

I think Eagle Scout has a lot of tasks but every ES I know built a bench or a wooden path for some entity they were already members (church, previous PS, neighborhood) and is GoFundMe for supplies. Yes, the very definition of grit

😂

You clearly don’t know what it takes to make Eagle.

Then tell us what is so great? :crickets:

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Yes they do, especially if they show grit and ability to finish a lengthy, complicated project on time. Like Eagle Scouts or Gold Award.

Do you really think being an Eagle Scout shows “grit”? LOL

I think Eagle Scout has a lot of tasks but every ES I know built a bench or a wooden path for some entity they were already members (church, previous PS, neighborhood) and is GoFundMe for supplies. Yes, the very definition of grit

😂

You clearly don’t know what it takes to make Eagle.

Anonymous wrote:^^ UVA needs to increase its share of first-generation students to compete with UCLA and UMich. It will improve its US news ranking. 695 offered in EA/ED round is actually not that many. UVA makes roughly 9000 offers each year. So it's not even 10%. UVA's yield is only around 40%. Don't equate the admitted number with the final enrollment.