UVA acceptance

[Anonymous]

According to 5 year data from DD’s VA public school district, acceptances seem heavily influenced by GPA/rigor. So much so that the 95+ percentile wGPA’s (amongst applicants) have 85%+ acceptance.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

I thought the only had an associates degree for engineering.

say what? DS entered in aerospace engineering at UVA and is now at Princeton for a P.hd in electrical engineering. Ignore the idiots who couldn't get in long ago and have no idea how Jim Ryan has improved the engineering schools over the last 8 years

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Yes uva engineering program is ABET accredited. UVA is in-state and at the minimum have to apply to UVA and Vatech.

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Combo got him in. A major national business competition earned him Echols.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

I thought the only had an associates degree for engineering.

say what? DS entered in aerospace engineering at UVA and is now at Princeton for a P.hd in electrical engineering. Ignore the idiots who couldn't get in long ago and have no idea how Jim Ryan has improved the engineering schools over the last 8 years

Are you all joking?
UVA is the oldest University engineering program in the USA.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

I thought the only had an associates degree for engineering.

say what? DS entered in aerospace engineering at UVA and is now at Princeton for a P.hd in electrical engineering. Ignore the idiots who couldn't get in long ago and have no idea how Jim Ryan has improved the engineering schools over the last 8 years

Are you all joking?
UVA is the oldest University engineering program in the USA.

Having Lego classes doesn’t qualify for a good engineering program.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

I thought the only had an associates degree for engineering.

say what? DS entered in aerospace engineering at UVA and is now at Princeton for a P.hd in electrical engineering. Ignore the idiots who couldn't get in long ago and have no idea how Jim Ryan has improved the engineering schools over the last 8 years

Are you all joking?
UVA is the oldest University engineering program in the USA.

Having Lego classes doesn’t qualify for a good engineering program.

Shh, adults are speaking.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

I know a kid with a 1550 SAT and a 4.0 unweighted (and great ECs) who got into top 5 school and didn’t get into UVA the last cycle. It’s not any one thing, and no set of scores guarantees you admission.

Yield protection.

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

OMG. Just... no.
DP

[Anonymous]

Just putting this out there:

Best Undergrad Engineering programs -

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

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Anonymous wrote:Just putting this out there:

Best Undergrad Engineering programs -

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

Hmmm didn’t see uva on that list. Maybe uva wise is ranked higher?

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Anonymous wrote:my DC who was admitted this past cycle in engineering said SAT/GPA is most important. around 1500 SAT and near 4.0 unweighted GPA should get you in.

Why would anyone go to uva for engineering? Do they even have an accredited engineering program?

Because it's vastly superior to the other somewhat meager in state options. Let's face it. E-school has always been far more selective than the college and the college is more selective than other engineering programs. in the end it just comes down to a better cohort.

I thought the only had an associates degree for engineering.

say what? DS entered in aerospace engineering at UVA and is now at Princeton for a P.hd in electrical engineering. Ignore the idiots who couldn't get in long ago and have no idea how Jim Ryan has improved the engineering schools over the last 8 years

Are you all joking?
UVA is the oldest University engineering program in the USA.

Having Lego classes doesn’t qualify for a good engineering program.

Shh, adults are speaking.

Go back to your poly sci class loser.

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Anonymous wrote:Just putting this out there:

Best Undergrad Engineering programs -

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

Hmmm didn’t see uva on that list. Maybe uva wise is ranked higher?

It's waaay down on the list. That was why I posted the link. Someone here was bragging (quelle surprise!) that UVA had a highly ranked engineering program. It does not.

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Anonymous wrote:For those whose kids were accepted into UVA, do you feel it was mainly grades/test scores or their involvement in ECs that helped their application?

For DC, it was grades (not all As but 12 APs, which showed rigor) and 1500 SAT. ECs were average, 3+2 years in two foreign languages, so no 4 years of same language.

Similar stories for DC's close friends (one from same FCPS school, one from TJ).

By comparison, another friend with 1550+ SAT, tons of ECs (varsity sport, Eagle Scout, class officer, protest leader covered in WP) but a little lower wGPA was waitlisted and elected to go to UVA Wise.

So for FCPS, 4.3 wGPA and 1500+ SAT gets you a decent to good chance, but not a guarantee, in the UVA crapshoot.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Just putting this out there:

Best Undergrad Engineering programs -

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate

Hmmm didn’t see uva on that list. Maybe uva wise is ranked higher?

It's waaay down on the list. That was why I posted the link. Someone here was bragging (quelle surprise!) that UVA had a highly ranked engineering program. It does not.

You also have to consider the overall rating. Harvard is not on the top list your provided either.