<p>“It’s more like 88% to 83-85% (can’t remember exactly, though my cousin who will be attending this year has the exact number).”</p>
<p>Oh I see, so BC’s percentage of students in the top 10% increases this year and UVA’s percentage stays the same? LOLz, ok. </p>
<p>“If she’s qualified enough to get accepted into honors at Boston College, then she had to have had 1450+ on her SAT and graduate at the very top of her class.”</p>
<p>Do you have a link for this? Or is this based on the students you met/speculation?</p>
<p>“But nearly 70% are in state and those students are GENERALLY weaker than students at BC so it ultimately balances out.”</p>
<p>Oh I see, so in-state students at UVA are “weaker” than the regular students at BC. If you weren’t aware, every year UVA enrolls 150-200 students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Technology (the best high in the United States–ranked number 1 among public and private high schools–<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html</a>). Students from TJ have an SAT score of 1478 (the highest SAT score average of any high school in the U.S. [PrepReview.com</a> > SAT Score Result Ranking](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20050315023027/http://www.prepreview.com/english/us/rank/sat.htm]PrepReview.com”>PrepReview.com > SAT Score Result Ranking)). Kids who turn down Ivy leagues to go to UVA because not everyone comes from a Catholic prep school and can go to private university. There ARE not-so-rich people in this world~ </p>
<p>~reality check</p>
<p>This is just one example of how “not even” UVA in-state kids are “weaker” than your average BC student.</p>