| I've noticed that Virginia's state schools, particularly, UVA and W&M are very grades driven. Our college counselors warn of that which is why many of the kids in the private schools do not apply to them even though they are highly desirable schools. I have seen some truly stellar kids turned down by UVA because it did not take into account GPA/rank in the context of the school. Those same kids were accepted to HPY at least in a couple of occaisions and to other Ivy and like selective schools, but turned down by UVA. One was a legacy whose parent questioned the rejection and it was attributed entirely to the unweighted GPA which was just to low.
However, I did not think Tech was as strict. |