When Monticello High School graduate Karam Noori didn’t get into the University of Virginia in 2023, he already knew his next move.
“I’ve kind of been very involved with the community. I’ve seen a lot of people around me that are older and go to the University of Virginia, people who’ve graduated,” he said. “It’s a pretty tight-knit community, and when I see that, it makes me want to be a part of that.”
Noori achieved his goal Thursday around 1:30 p.m. at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

Noori plans to study biology at UVA. (Photo by Lathan Goumas, University Communications)
“It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that you have been offered admission to the University of Virginia for the Fall 2025 term as a student in the College of Arts & Sciences,” reads the opening of a letter administrators handed him in a sun-filled conference room at the school.
He was all smiles, knowing he’d followed the right path.
UVA has maintained guaranteed admission agreements with the Virginia Community College System since the early 2000s, provided the community college students earn a two-year associate’s degree in arts, sciences or arts and sciences, maintain a minimum grade-point average and earn at least 45 transferrable credits.