<p>thanks for your post. The secnd part of my question pertained to Rodman/Echols statistical differentiation with UVA students in general. GPA, SAT, metriculation stat's, etc?</p>
<p>DCM: what I've seen among Echols/Rodman scholars is that they are generally more successful as a group than other UVa students. Overwhelmingly, they attend top graduate schools and take top jobs. Many do very well in very difficult courses of study and are highly active in the community. Usually more than a quarter of students selected to live on the law are Echols scholars, an impressive number considering that well under 10% of the student body are in the program.</p>
<p>I think it would be a good recruiting tool for the school to market the Echols/Rodman program entrance and graduation results. I think the programs are more elite than externally portrayed. Both programs compete head to head with the Ivey league programs. Quality of student's, quality of education, and quality of results. It shouldn't be a well kept secret.</p>
<p>Not really. It's really not that surprising for high-aptitude students at a very good university. The programs are pretty much just fancy titles given to top admitted students. If you took every kid with top 1-2% grades and 1500+ SATs who enrolls at any school and compare them to the rest of the population, you'll see that as a group, they're more successful. Those people tend to take harder courses and do better in them. They also tend to get better scores on graduate boards, which in some cases (Law school) are more important even than academic record. And fwiw, there's nothing particularly special about the Ivy League. Three very elite universities and five others that are pretty good as well, but no better than 15-20 other non-Ivies.</p>
<p>What's a "safe" SAT score? Something in the 1300's?</p>