<p>So sorry for the disappointment. TBH, looking at your stats I would have thought the same thing you did - that you were an excellent candidate. But don’t throw in the towel yet. You have 3 schools yet to hear from. I am surprised on your views on William and Mary. We are OOS but we did tour and really liked the school. Nationally, it has a really great reputation and the faculty list is quite impressive. The admissions rate for graduate programs is high out of W & M and we actually liked the campus a lot. I think you will find less emphasis on the greek system and it is known for being less of a party school, but that is what we found appealing. Also, I agree with other posters, don’t call admissions at UVA. </p>
<p>You only took 5 ap’s! Most people who get accepted to UVA take 8-12 ap or ib classes. Even though you’ve gotten straight a’s, it doesn’t seem like it was a hard course load. They are looking for people who truly work their hardest and maybe get a b instead of people who arn’t working their absolute hardest their junior and senior year!</p>
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<p>Do you have anything to back up this statement? Because unless you do, I’m throwing the BS flag.</p>
<p>No one here knows why you got rejected. There are people who got in with lower stats that yours, and people who got in with the same stats. Unless you can actually talk to the people who read your application (and even if you could, I doubt they’d remember exactly why they thought another candidate was a better choice), you really just have to live with this.</p>
<p>My daughter got rejected from Stanford last year (and her dad is an alum!), then found out about a few people who got in with lower SATs and GPAs. Did it hurt? Of course. Rejection always sucks, but you can’t stay there in pity mode forever. Be sad for a while, then move on to your real choices.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, don’t second guess decisions you can’t undo. Your hard work will pay off. It may not have led to this one opportunity, but it will lead to others.</p>
<p>If you look around this forum, you’ll see a lot of kids rejected, deferred, not selected for awards, that look mightly good, and one would expect should have made the cut, at any number of schools. Happens all of the time. Trying to figure out why is a waste of energy.</p>
<p>What happened to Massmomm’s DD is not at all unusual. My son’s school must have the top 15-20% of the class all applying to the same group of colleges popular to them, and it’s always interesting who got accepted. Can’t draw a line at the top 10% . Doesn’t work that way. And parents and kids howl unfair each year when this happens. My brother is in shock that his friends who are double Duke alums, have a DD at a top school, way up there deferred for ED at Duke, when some other kids with test scores not as high and GPAs not as high, and certainly not in as difficult of a curriculum got in. It hurts, yes. </p>
<p>Don’t listen to the guy who told you you need to take 8-12 ap’s to get in. In most Virginia high schools it is impossible to take that many. Just cheer up, my friend. I’m sure you will love whatever school you go to</p>
<p>Wait to see how the chips fall for the rest of your acceptances. Hopefully you will pick your second choice college and you’ll be happy there. If you’re still unhappy after your freshman year, try transferring to UVA. I once saw this same situation with a young man who felt this strongly about Princeton. He reapplied from his second choice college and got in with a 4.0. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>What is UVA in-state acceptance rate this year?</p>
<p>sorry you are so upset and things didnt work out…been thru the college process 2x and really nothing makes sense. we are in nova too. i do think uva picks up more students at certain schools here (since i had kids at two different schools). what school are you at? not sure about this yr, but i know in the past, that not all from TJ that applied were accepted…I new a few of the kids. i think the kids here compete with those at their school and then in nova. i know some people that went to Will Mary over UVA and liked it better. In the end, you will be a success no matter, if that is what you want. </p>
<p>i see you want to do medical and i have heard to kids doing premed at WM then med school at UVA. </p>
<p>Because, by rejecting people, they get to enhance their own reputation. It’s a cycle of self-flagellation that poisons our whole society, but by no means starts with any one institution. </p>
<p>^^^So you don’t think that it could possibly be because there are only a limited number of spaces and many times that number of qualified applicants? </p>
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<p>The only numbers available so far for the class of 2018 are the EA numbers.</p>
<p>EA in-state acceptance rate this year was 51.1%.</p>
<p>“So you don’t think that it could possibly be because there are only a limited number of spaces and many times that number of qualified applicants?”</p>
<p>Nnnnnope. Not ultimately, anyway. </p>
<p>Look at VTs benchmark schools below. I don’t think you are “settling.” I know it feels that way now, but you are incredible and are going to be a wonderful asset to whatever school you end up at. You live in a state with 3 schools in the top 25 Public Universities in the nation. Try to consider yourself lucky that you have 3 options for in state tuition at very highly regarded schools. </p>
<p>•University of California, Berkeley
•University of California, Davis
•University of Colorado, Boulder
•Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
•University of Florida, Gainesville
•University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
•Iowa State University, Ames
•University of Maryland, College Park
•University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
•Michigan State University, East Lansing
•University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
•University of Missouri, Columbia
•North Carolina State University, Raleigh
•The Ohio State University, Columbus
•Pennsylvania State University, University Park
•University of Pittsburgh
•Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
•Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
•State University of New York at Buffalo
•University of Southern California, Los Angeles
•Stony Brook University, State University of New York
•Texas A&M University, College Station
•University of Texas at Austin
•University of Washington, Seattle
•University of Wisconsin, Madison</p>
<p>hey 3tallblonds, where do you find that info? I would like to be able to look at it for some other schools we might consider for a child that graduates in the future (like uva, notre dame, vanderbilt)</p>
<p>I know how you feel. I really wanted to go to Georgia Tech. I plan on transferring there after one year somewhere else. </p>
<p>@YAS907 I didn’t mean the Ap courses in that way! Most of the schools around offer around 15 ap classes, so usually the people who get into UVA take many of them. I get that it could be different for schools or maybe it doesn’t fit in your schedule. I’m just trying to help you out to be honest so you may have some clarity. I didn’t mean to make everyone upset. It really is strange because I know some amazing students who didn’t get in and some on the lower ends of thing who did. They really just don’t look at the numbers.</p>
<p>BDM1994, here’s what you said upthread:</p>
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<p>That means, according to you, that more than 50% of UVA’s accepted applicants have taken at least 8 AP or IB classes. Please tell me where you got this information.</p>
<p>cali60 - I just found it on VT’s website. I’ve seen that on other university’s websites too. I’m not sure where VT gets that info., but maybe it’s based on research funding or the like. Still, it’s just another piece of infomation. </p>