<p>We’re outta state from NY, strong school district. We’re both in the top ten of our class (she’s ranked higher though)…she has a slightly higher GPA and way higher Sat (i have 1370…shes def in the 1400s) but i have much better ECs and awards…will UVA only take one of us from one school district if they take either?</p>
<p>Are my chances ruined now? ugh</p>
<p>UVA is a highly selective school, especially for out of staters. It will be a reach for her as well as you. I doubt they will be concerned that you are both from the same school–my son’s school has 3-4 accepted there each year. The school is not concerned with ECs and awards from what I can see from acceptances I know. It is a high reach school for you unless you have some kind of a “hook” that they really want–something like contributing athlete. I know a legacy who was turned down with 1500+ in SATs (V&M) and high grades from a top high school. Your chances are not ruined. They were not good to begin with and they still are not good.</p>
<p>We have a holistic process here; We definitely consider involvement and commitment in our review process. </p>
<p>We don’t have any rules about how many students we can accept from a given school and we don’t read in regional batches, so applications from one school or town won’t be read together and compared. </p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Thank you so much Dean J. You are a saint on these boards!! :-)</p>
<p>Getoutta,</p>
<p>I’m wondering if gender might give you an advantage over your female classmate. (that is, if you are a boy)</p>
<p>In his speech to to the First years at move-in day, President Casteen said that the class of 2010 has a female to male ratio of 57 to 43. </p>
<p>There was an article written by a dean of admission at Kenyon College this year that basically stated that they have to turn away many qualified female applicants.</p>
<p>The admitted students appear to be kept very similar to the applicant pool by gender at UVA. However, that’s not the case at schools like W&M which do turn away many qualified female applicants for more male admits.</p>
<p>why on earth would a school deny admission to a more qualified female to replace her with a male, or vice versa? I don’t understand… but then again I don’t understand affirmative action one bit (a la University of michigan).</p>
<p><em>shrug</em></p>
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source?</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure I read this year that they don’t have different standards. Obviously now I can’t find it. All I can find is this from a couple years ago:
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<p>If you look at the admissions data, there are far more female applicants than male applicants. However, recently they’ve been making the gender ratio very close to 1:1. Also, male applicant average SAT scores are higher over the entire populace, not necessarily among the applicants W&M gets (minority females are more likely to take the SAT than minority males among other factors), and W&M talks about how the SAT scores aren’t too big of a factor in their Admissions FAQ page or something anyway.
This is definitely different from when William and Mary’s entering classes were clearly dominated by females- the male applicants didn’t just get better overnight.</p>
<p>Looking at the numbers again, there is clearly a significant drop from the number of women who apply to the number of women who are admitted. This past year was an 8 point drop from 62% applicants being female to 54% admissions being female. This appears to happen to some degree or another over the years. I don’t see how so many women can be rejected like that when peer schools like UVA keep their ratios similar, unless W&M happens to attract less qualified women for whatever reasons.</p>