UVA admits only.

[Anonymous]

Please list the credentials with which your ds/dd got admitted with, at UVA last year or ED.

GPA
SAT
Ecs
Anything else.

[Anonymous]

NP: including whether the student is in state or out of state is important.

[Anonymous]

DC EA last year from LCPS in state. Hope this helps.

SAT = 1530
UW = 4.0
Through 11th grade 6 APs with 5-5s and 1-3
12th grade took 7 APs with 7-5s
EC: made to nationals for chemistry Olympiad. Placed in (1st, 2nd, etc) in State, regional, and international piano competitions.
Awarded ROTC scholarship.

[Anonymous]

If you ask enough people, you will see a set of kids with comparable stats and some kids are accepted and others rejected. So the information you will get in this thread won't be very meaningful.

You have done Naviance at your own kid's school, of course?

[Anonymous]

You would want to know the college.

[Anonymous]

Dean J has said multiple time that GPA is a correlation not a causation. The GPA and number of AP courses do not tell the story. It is the actual courses taken and the performance in those courses that matter. That is why you have higher GPAs/AP courses getting rejected when others are accepted. The GPA may have been high but rigor not. Or their AP courses were all in one or two areas rather than all 5 subject matters. While numbers can give you an idea of you are in range, it is ultimately the actual courses, how you did in them, along with your EC and essays that matter.

[Anonymous]

1430 SAT
4.24 GPA at application, 4.39 at graduation.
13 AP courses, all 4s and 5s
Part time job
Not much on the ECs-
Was VP in one club that they were in for 4 years.
Only national award was Latin gold
Not a superstar in DCUM standards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dean J has said multiple time that GPA is a correlation not a causation. The GPA and number of AP courses do not tell the story. It is the actual courses taken and the performance in those courses that matter. That is why you have higher GPAs/AP courses getting rejected when others are accepted. The GPA may have been high but rigor not. Or their AP courses were all in one or two areas rather than all 5 subject matters. While numbers can give you an idea of you are in range, it is ultimately the actual courses, how you did in them, along with your EC and essays that matter.

The only answer that is accurate. actual coursework matters more than gpa, as it does with elite privates/ivy-types. UVA just has a bar a notch lower than those schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC EA last year from LCPS in state. Hope this helps.

SAT = 1530
UW = 4.0
Through 11th grade 6 APs with 5-5s and 1-3
12th grade took 7 APs with 7-5s
EC: made to nationals for chemistry Olympiad. Placed in (1st, 2nd, etc) in State, regional, and international piano competitions.
Awarded ROTC scholarship.

Wow !

[Anonymous]

SAT - 1280
GPA -4.2
In state

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAT - 1280
GPA -4.2
In state

Nice.
Any ec’s / APs?

[Anonymous]

Besides the college (A&S, engineering, nursing, etc) you’d want to know if test optional, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAT - 1280
GPA -4.2
In state

No offense, but 1280 is very very low for an admit to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAT - 1280
GPA -4.2
In state

No offense, but 1280 is very very low for an admit to UVA.

Is 1400+ the norm for UVA or usually only
1500 +

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dean J has said multiple time that GPA is a correlation not a causation. The GPA and number of AP courses do not tell the story. It is the actual courses taken and the performance in those courses that matter. That is why you have higher GPAs/AP courses getting rejected when others are accepted. The GPA may have been high but rigor not. Or their AP courses were all in one or two areas rather than all 5 subject matters. While numbers can give you an idea of you are in range, it is ultimately the actual courses, how you did in them, along with your EC and essays that matter.

Enough with the soliloquy. How answering the dam* question?