<p>Is it a postage stamp or is it some sort of red stamp with the amount of postage paid? I recieved something like that from Boston University, which mailed their decisions on Friday and I just recieved it today.</p>
<p>The usual rules don’t seem to be applying this year. UVa accepted only something like 30.7% of applicants this year, and their SAT mid-50% range was way up from past years. So UVa was more exclusive this year than the historical averages for W&M that can be found on College Board. If W&M also had a record number of apps, they may still be more exclusive than UVa. No way to tell until W&M posts their numbers.</p>
<p>I know of one case this year where a guy accepted to Virginia Tech was rejected by JMU; that’s backwards from the conventional wisdom. So you never know until you know.</p>
<p>i’m in NC, but i have a feeling i won’t be getting anything till Wednesday or Thursday</p>
<p>Not necessarily the exception, jdalu. My nephew was accepted at Tech and rejected from JMU. It happens. </p>
<p>It appears many persons on the UVA board are upset they didn’t get in with their perfect/near perfect SAT scores. Not certain why anyone thinks there is a sense of entitlement. My opinion…WM more difficult to gain admission than UVA. Have a daughter at WM, another one that was waitlisted, and two sons that are graduates of UVA.</p>
<p>What’s this talk of green ink on the envelope? Is that how an acceptance letter looks like?</p>
<p>Our D’s big envelope had ‘welcome’ on it. Good luck!</p>
<p>Green ink refers to the color ink the Dean of Admissions uses for his official, hand written signature. The envelope will have ‘Welcome’ in big letters on the outside - there is no guesswork - from the outside of the envelope you will know your status immediately. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>@jdalu75 - JMU worries about their yield. Many well qualified applicants are waitlisted or rejected because they do not think the student will enroll.</p>
<p>@momray - When did you sons graduate? UVA used to be easier to get in but not in recent years. They are both hard to get into, but in the last four/five years, we know more people rejected by UVA and accepted by W&M then the other way around. This is based on the stats in the high school showing where students applied and accepted.</p>
<p>Sons were a few years ago. Daughter at WM was also accepted to UVA.</p>
<p>I reside in LI do you think I will get my decision today?</p>
<p>Highly unlikely</p>
<p>wonder if i’ll get mine today…I’m in north carolina</p>
<p>I haven’t really paid much attention to UVA’s admissions policies recently (no need), but I have to wonder if the abolition of EA has changed things over there? I read the thread about the near-perfect resume’s being wait-listed, and there were a couple of assertions that “UVA doesn’t practice yield protection.” Such dictums aside, perhaps this is a new thing for UVA, using the WL as yield protection since they no longer have the EA program to assure themselves of interest / enrollment? (I’m sure you know this, but you’d think that sending an application is sufficient indication of interest, but it’s not - many top students collect acceptances like some people collect baseball cards, and apply to 10-15 colleges or more.) </p>
<p>Best way I can describe the relationship between W&M and UVA is simply that they are, overall, peers - that’s not to say that the same student accepted into one will always be accepted into the other - that’s frequently, but not universally true - beyond that, there seems to be a rough equality (percentage-wise) in those who were accepted by one and rejected by the other as vice-versa. If that makes sense…</p>
<p>davh01, given the absolute numbers of applicants and acceptances to each school, there will be more rejected from UVA than W&M. I’d say that overall, the acceptance rates for both schools are similar, but given the large disparity of females that apply to W&M, the acceptance rate among females is dramatically lower, with the male acceptance rate at W&M slightly higher, working out to rough equivalence.</p>
<p>In the end, both are very selective (extremely selective for OOS), and I think we’re very fortunate to have two of the finest public schools in the country here in Virginia.</p>
<p>@Squiddy </p>
<p>The stats I am referring to are from past seniors in my S high school applying to both colleges. Then again, that’s only his school. Others may differ. </p>
<p>Another possible explanation of increased applications I hear is going to common application. But I doubted since the supplement require additional essays and does not save the application much time.</p>
<p>D got small envelope in mail today - obviously not accepted, but I can tell there is a greenish card in the envelope. Does that mean waitlisted? Seems like my older D got a card to send back as she was waitlisted (twice - ED and RD).</p>
<p>imnva - where do you live?</p>
<p>Winchester, VA</p>
<p>imnva, what was her SAT Score?</p>
<p>We’re out of town, but son called to tell my daughter that she got a small envelope in the mail today. We live in Northern VA. She’s not too disappointed, since she was accepted at other great schools that are a great match for her. Good luck to the rest of you.</p>