UVa All the way...

Globalist
Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:56:56 +0000

I think magnet schools that have to weed out a lot of applicants have an edge in the college admissions game - schools like Stuyvesant (in Manhattan), Bronx Science, Jefferson Science (in Northern VA) to name a few. These schools usually have some sort of admissions exam and accept only the best students in their area. (I know that Stuyvesant has a lower acceptance rate than most Ivies.) So, for a college to admit someone from those high schools, it knows it’s supposedly getting ‘la creme de la creme’. For example, Jefferson Science sends a 1/3 of its graduating class to UVa every year.