Anonymous
03/16/2026 22:03
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OOS private here.
Our CCO told kids to write a separate personal statement for UVA that combined a personal statement in the traditional sense with something UVA specific (almost like a why school essay). Similar to what transfer students do.
So your supplemental essays made their way into the personal statement if that makes sense.
Kids who executed it well had great results.
Will start process next year. Is personal statement part of common app or are you saying sent in a separate letter to UvA outside common app? I thought they said would not/do not accept those?
The personal statement is the common app essay that is sent to every college.
For most people, it is the same essay everywhere. Some private college counseling firms have kids customize them.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 21:37
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ah, got it - thank you.
Like the Vtech supp essays
Yes, PP, the supplemental essay at UVA operated in much the same way that the supplemental essays at Va Tech work. That's why they were all called "supplemental essays."
It's astonishing that you needed this spelled out for you.
DP. What's astonishing is that UVA chose to get rid of any supplementals. VT has no problem requiring them.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 21:35
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:No one sees the connection to the DOJ?
No? Plenty of other colleges manage to include supplemental essays that aren't identity-based or problematic in any way. UVA cutting out all their supplementals was just lazy and an obvious way to manipulate the admit rate. Very transparent.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 21:30
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.
Then why is UVA higher ranked than UMD? The high schools or student quality of NOVA is similar to that of MOCO, income levels are similar too.
UVA is one of the oldest schools in the country that has been a destination for out of state applicants for a long time.
Maryland has JHU. Virginia does not.
A perennial UMD booster trying to justify why UMD << UVA.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 21:05
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.
Then why is UVA higher ranked than UMD? The high schools or student quality of NOVA is similar to that of MOCO, income levels are similar too.
UVA is one of the oldest schools in the country that has been a destination for out of state applicants for a long time.
Maryland has JHU. Virginia does not.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 15:46
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:OOS private here.
Our CCO told kids to write a separate personal statement for UVA that combined a personal statement in the traditional sense with something UVA specific (almost like a why school essay). Similar to what transfer students do.
So your supplemental essays made their way into the personal statement if that makes sense.
Kids who executed it well had great results.
Will start process next year. Is personal statement part of common app or are you saying sent in a separate letter to UvA outside common app? I thought they said would not/do not accept those?
Anonymous
03/16/2026 15:12
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.
Then why is UVA higher ranked than UMD? The high schools or student quality of NOVA is similar to that of MOCO, income levels are similar too.
Can you explain how your comment is related to the one you quoted?
Anonymous
03/16/2026 15:09
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.
Then why is UVA higher ranked than UMD? The high schools or student quality of NOVA is similar to that of MOCO, income levels are similar too.
UVA > UMD
Anonymous
03/16/2026 14:12
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.
Then why is UVA higher ranked than UMD? The high schools or student quality of NOVA is similar to that of MOCO, income levels are similar too.
Anonymous
03/16/2026 13:54
Subject: UVA 7% RD admit rate this year
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is such a silly thread. We all know that eliminating essays made it super easy to increase apps and thus reject more people. Acceptance rate manipulation at its “finest.”
Can we please stop with this. Acceptance rate is NOT used at all in college rankings, and very specifically not used in US News rankings. Why would UVA care about "manipulating" its acceptance rate?
They dropped the questions because they wanted to avoid a fight with the U.S. government. Yes, it led to an increase in applications. But that was not the driver behind the change.
This is the correct answer. UVA is very transparent. UVA does not pander to rankings.