Applicants from China

muckdogs07
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:53:38 +0000

Momzie,

Fortunate to have a son admitted in-state at UVA via early action. He attends a feeder school in NOVA to UVA that generally sends 20-plus students. This year only one student has committed, while in the past many more had done so by this point. I wonder if UVA will re-consider EA (and maybe go to ED instead, like W&M) because I suspect it is causing havoc with their planning.

As for the Chinese students at UVA, I have not heard about any problems with cheating that impact UVA. I think this program really adds cache to UVA because the students from China are typically at the very top (and in China that means a lot). UVA often gets the best of those students because it established a program in China earlier than many of its peers and has received very good word of mouth from past students. As a result, in China, UVA has as much prestige as Harvard/Yale.