If you're rejected from UVa...

<p>I stole this from a couple boards. If you're rejected, where will you probably end up?</p>

<p>Chicago or Penn</p>

<p>If I'm rejected from UVA, then I'll get rejected from most of schools I applied to. That will come down to Boston University, Mary Washington, William & Mary, and James Madison. So....William & Mary.</p>

<p>i hate to break it to you but if your rejected from UVa, your chances at WM are quite slim</p>

<p>that's what i was going to say, though i hope i'd still get in w&m.
i'll probably end up at georgetown (in my dreams), maybe middlebury, or penn state (accepted).</p>

<p>If I get rejected from UVA, that means I will probably get rejected from all the others schools (Princeton, Cornell, William & Mary, University of Richmond) where I applied and next year I will either be taking a gap year and spending it in Central America or be at community college.</p>

<p>But I do know someone who was rejected by UVA but accepted at Harvard!</p>

<p>haha, that last part is kind of depressing.</p>

<p>Hopefully Wake Forest or Vanderbilt. If not either of those, then possibly William and Mary, Tech, Madison, Maryland, Penn State, or Haverford to play baseball.
By the way Bjcdb, from my instate school, William and Mary is easier to get into than UVA due to the fact that literally three times the kids apply to UVA. Over 25 of more than 40 were accepted early decision at UVA, while only about 3-4 of about 8 were accepted at WM. Also, many kids from my school use UVA as a safety and do not even bother applying to William and Mary. Further, every single male who applied to WM from my school last year was accepted, even those with SATs below 1300.</p>

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But I do know someone who was rejected by UVA but accepted at Harvard!

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<p>That is the most horrifying thing I have ever heard. I am almost tempted to click the "Report Offensive Post" button.</p>

<p>I know some kids who have blown off the UVA essays b/c they thought it was a sure thing for them and ended up getting rejected while being accepted at top schools elsewhere.</p>

<p>Worldshopper, that's feasible if the applicant was out of state or a non-black URM or had some other unique set of circumstances.</p>

<p>GGGunit do you go to TJ? o_O</p>

<p>W&M and UVA have fairly similiar numbers. There's a lot of overlap in admissions, but there's also more people than you would think who get into one of the schools but not the other.</p>

<p><--- Rejected @ UVA as a Legacy (Deferred ED), In, and very happy, at W&M.</p>

<p>soccerguy,</p>

<p>I'm a little too lazy to take this to another board. What do you all do at W&M for a good time? Is there anything other than "the deli" they talked about on the tour?</p>

<p>soccerguy-</p>

<p>At TJ I think almost everyone got in ED at UVA. 3 deferrals that I know of. I don't know of anyone who didn't get into W&M ED.</p>

<p>soccerguy315, that is frightening that you get rejected at UVa as a legacy but you were accepted at W & M. Do you have any idea why you were rejected? What were your stats? I'm sorry if I am being nosy you do not have to answer this.</p>

<p>cavalier: Applicant was in-state (Fredericksburg) and white male. He took a bunch of AP exams (like 6 or something) and scored 5's without EVER taking the classes. I swear it's true. He was Val, of course. I'm thinking UVA rejected him because they felt that with his creditionals, he applied to some Ivy league schools and was using UVA as a back-up (which he did of course). </p>

<p>But...I also know a girl who was rejected from UVA last year with 1450 SATs, 3.8 u.w. GPA, competitive public school. Waitlisted at W & M and never got in. Ended up going to George Washington.</p>

<p>I go to Robinson, not TJ. So far, this has been our most productive year ever (by far) as far as getting kids into top schools is concerned.</p>

<p>worldshopper, I still think that that story is kind of ridiculous. I had HYP type stats and UVA was definitely my safety, and I still got in. The applicant you're talking about must have expressed some kind of arrogance in some part of the application. As a state school, UVA doesn't really play the same kind of yield-protecting games that schools like Duke, Tufts, and Cornell play.</p>

<p>Cavalier: Perhaps he did express arrogance or wrote terrible essays, who knows. But I can tell you that UVA does indeed reject VERY qualified in-state applicants all the time. I know (not personally though) another girl last year who graduated val from a large competitive public school and you got it, she was rejected by UVA.</p>

<p>is it true that UVA uses a kind of pre-app filtering before reading the actual application. Like do they quickly sort the apps into groups like Shoe-ins, good chance, maybe, deny? Im not sure, but I heard they do this so that the essay wont "make or break" the applicant.</p>