tigerlilly4588

Does anyone else feel that UVA doesn't do a great job of communicating w/its applicants? Besides for the people who got likely letters, I feel like they don't really update you too well. All I ever got from them was an email reminding me to send my midyear report. Does that seem a little odd? My other schools, esp. John Hopkins, have done a great job communicating info to prospective students, and UVa seems to be in a league of its own..what do you guys think?

Globalist

Actually, I've heard that about UVa Admissions, and I'd like to do something to change that...somehow.

tigerlilly4588

I just don't understand why they don't communicate w/students more...I feel like it is not only detrimental to us but to them as well

Globalist

I'd love to answer that question for you. Maybe not enough staff members to deal w/ all the follow up? I don't know. At some point, I'd like to talk to some of the admissions officers about it.

tigerlilly4588

Are you a current student at UVa

Globalist

No, I'm an alumnus...but a very involved alumnus.

tigerlilly4588

oh, i see...what did you major in? (trying to kill time while I anxiously await decisions)

Globalist

Politics / Econ

fjchowdhury

I think it has to do with teh fact that it is a huge public school.. you can't really reach out to everybody, you know? That's just my thoughts though

cavalier302

Not really, fjchowdhury. At 13,000 undergraduates, UVA isn't huge, and its application volume is a bit lower than what many of its peers see. This is just a case of the admissions office not being in communication with applicants, as it should be. If they spent the time and money to do it, they could surely increase yield and drop the acceptace rate.

sv3a

I think UVA only received a few more thousand applicants than JHU.

cavalier302

JMU isn't one of its peers. I was thinking more along the lines of other top 30ish universities. Regardless, the problem has nothing to do with UVA's size or its status as a public institution.

sv3a

I said Johns Hopkins in response to the post about having too large an applicant pool, basically saying how JHU has a comparative amount of applicants and still manages to outclass UVA in its admissions programs.

cavalier302

Whoops, I misread it. Indeed, JHU is one of UVA's peers.

ItsHerLife

My daughter received a likely letter from UVA and very little else in terms of communication. In comparison, UNC has communicated with her almost weekly since she was accepted into the honors program in January - emails, packages, phone calls from students, etc. She has commented that it definitely appears that UNC "wants" her more - stroking her ego. To be fair, none of the other top programs where she applied have communicated at the same level as UNC.