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Jeannine Lalonde
@uvadeanj.bsky.social
Personal account of the one who started the UVA admission blog 20 years ago.

NJ ➡️ RI ➡️ MA 🦅➡️ VA 🏛️

More active on IG and TT until this place takes off with higher ed and admission.
GPAs aren’t standardized.
GPAs aren’t standardized.
GPAs aren’t standardized.

That number doesn’t show grades, courses, or trends. That info is found on the transcript and is reviewed in the context of what the student’s school offers and how assessments are made there.
August 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Garden Room/Hotel E was a faculty dining room when I first got to UVA. I went once and was intimidated.

Feast, a sandwich/food market took over the space recently.
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Just getting these ready for any trash talk texts. 💙⚔️🧡
December 1, 2024 at 12:24 AM
This is interesting. I think I had a little more than 11,000 followers on Twitter when I left in 2023. I just checked my profile and I'm down to ~9700 followers.

College admission people, if you're here, say hello!
November 15, 2024 at 7:10 PM
An old clipping from a high school profile. Students are always surprised when I tell them there's school with a 12 point GPA.

We don't use GPAs to make admission decisions. We have to look at coursework and grades on a transcript to understand a student's preparation.
November 13, 2024 at 7:12 PM
For the new people, I work in undergrad admission at UVA. I like to talk about how and why we do things in the admission world. I have a cute dog named Jack.
November 12, 2024 at 11:46 AM
A defunct news magazine says we're a good school based on these criteria.
September 24, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The bot activity on the app we all left continues to make me laugh. I deleted by content, but kept my account so no one can take my name. My profile description makes it clear that I'm not there.

I get new followers daily.
November 30, 2023 at 7:54 PM
Be sure to read application instructions! I'm getting emails and DMs from applicants wondering how to submit updates to their files. We have a section about that in the instructions.
November 29, 2023 at 1:13 PM
From 2017, but still valid today: GPAs don't tell you the full academic story and GPA methodologies vary. This is the GPA distribution at one of my high schools.
November 28, 2023 at 2:38 PM
That time CavPup visited students studying at UVA’s 1515, an off-Grounds building bought to turn into a student and event space. Students were involved in decisions about the design and layout!
November 28, 2023 at 2:37 PM