<p>I'm an OOS legacy at UVA and would love to attend. ~3.8 GPA, 32 ACT, 2140 SAT, top ~6%, leadership and all that jazz. But there are many students with comparable (or better) stats applying from my school. Does UVA have a certain quota of OOS kids that they accept from specific schools?</p>
<p>I could be horrifically wrong, but no, I don't think so.</p>
<p>they don't, but keep in mind it is unlikely they'll accept more than 1 or 2 from a school for purely academic reasons, 2/3 of the applications come from OOS and only 1/3 of the student body is OOS.</p>
<p>i go to school in VA and we had like 12 kids accepted from our school last year. its a public school and no one is doing a varsity sport for them. plus one of the admission officers said that they purposely dont compare students from the same school, they shuffle the papers if they find two kids in a row from the same school so it's random. id say if youre smart, youll get in</p>
<p>Wow swimmer, I heard the opposite. I heard that the adcoms compare students within a particular school to compare rigor, ec's etc. </p>
<p>I also heard from one gc that it is rare to get into UVa and W&M, other gc said it happens all the time.</p>
<p>Hard to get the facts isn't it?</p>
<p>Swimmer, I was your visitor. :)</p>
<p>We get 18,000 applications. Logistically, we can't wait for all the applications from one school to arrive before we read. We read applications as they are completed. It is not a draft where students are lined up and compared to those from their area.</p>
<p>We'll run schools lists at the end of the process to make sure we haven't made a big error, but we aren't making drastic decision changes a that point.</p>
<p>Dean J, several years ago I was told directly by someone in admissions that instate students were compared against others from their school as a means of determining which students had really succeeded within their environment. Has something changed?</p>
<p>Cav:</p>
<p>I think I recall reading some place (I hope I didn't just dream this) that at a point fairly late in the application process, after tenative decisions have been made but before decisions are finalized, the UVa Admissions Office generates lists of students who applied from each school. Then, on a school by school basis, tenative decisions are reviewed for all applicants from a given school, as a way of making sure that the students from each school who do receive offers of admission to UVa are, on a relative basis (within their own school), the applicants who best meet UVa's admissions criteria for a given year's incoming class. As I understand it, the purpose of this review is simply to ensure that a student who is (clearly) less "qualified" does not receive an offer of admission over another student from his/her same school who is (obviously) more deserving of an offer. As Dean J stated, the goal is to make sure UVa Admissions doesn't make a "big error", so the differences between the qualifications and fit for UVa between two students would need to be quite pronounced to prompt a decision change at this point. One of the factors that plays an important role in the applications review process is how each applicant compares/performs/contributes within his/her school when viewed against peers in that school. For that reason alone, this sort of late in the process review makes sense. It's one of many steps the admissions folks take in an effort to maintain as level a playing field as possible for the students who apply to UVa. If I am way off target with any information in this post, hopefully Dean J will set the record straight for me/us.</p>
<p>UVA is required by Virginia state law to accept a minimum of approximately 67% of in state students. I say approximately because I can't remember the exact number with a positive answer, but I'm pretty sure it was 67%</p>