<p>question. i read somewhere, i think dean j said it that UVA does not compare you to kids from your school. today, someone in my class told me that they can only accept a certain number of students from each school. wouldn’t this imply that they WOULD eventually compare you to kids from your school? please enlighten me! thanks.</p>
<p>It’s true that they read randomly. They don’t take one kid and compare him to another in the same school. But since school rank is an important factor, you could say that yes they only accept a certain number of students from each school: roughly the top 10%. Since they read holistically, they may also accept people outside of these top 10% who have something unusually interesting in their app.</p>
<p>We can admit as many students as we want from one school. </p>
<p>When I read a file, I couldn’t care less if the applicants is the only one applying from their school or if they are one of 300 applicants in their senior class.</p>
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Any time a statements starts off this way, I’m reasonably sure I’m going to hear something that’s been totally fabricated. It was smart to ask! I fear that many accept what friends, relatives, and others with weak or no connection to the Office of Admission have to say.</p>
<p>Lovely. Thanks for the clarification! I mean she’s a smart gal, so I just quietly accepted it haha.</p>
<p>Of course, I just saw my typo…long after I’m able to edit my post. Oh well.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. There’s an urban legend, unfortunately reinforced by teachers at my son’s HS, who insist that UVA and Virginia Tech both have strict limits on the numbers they’ll accept from a single school.</p>
<p>Let’s hope the UVA server doesn’t crash at 5:00:00.01 tomorrow afternoon! Some of the posters sound like they’ll be checking right on the dot.</p>
<p>haha like me. :)</p>
<p>Less than 24 hours to go!</p>
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I used to post a “let’s hear the rumors” thread on my blog, but it got too depressing.</p>
<p>It’s amazing how often people try to tell students how we operate. I started blogging and posting here because I was shocked by some of the rumors that were flying around the web about how admission works.</p>
<p>The servers won’t crash. :)</p>
<p>yep, less than 24 hrs to go, confidence down real low for OSS(Northwestern waitlist)…=(</p>
<p>tomorrow could be the best day of my life or put me into a state of depression. let’s hope it is the former! i hope that teacher of mine changed the C- i didn’t deserve on my transcript! I’ll certainly find out if she did tomorrow haha.</p>
<p>Less than a day! OMG UVA. :D</p>
<p>^that rhymes :D</p>
<p>@jetblk328i Keep holding on! You shouldn’t base your chance at UVA off from your decision at another school.</p>
<p>“Admission decisions are not available at this time. Please check back on March 26, 2010 at 5 PM Eastern.” -UVA SIS</p>
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I told you all I would change the message yesterday. </p>
<p>Was it not official when I posted it on the blog and on this message board on Monday? :)</p>
<p>ahhh it’s today!!</p>
<p>Daughter got in! Exactly at 5 p.m. ET she tried her account. What an honor for her and us.</p>
<p>Good luck to you all. </p>
<p>GHWM</p>