UVA Decisions Out Tonight

[Anonymous]

The two that got in from our high school have similar profiles. Top 1 or 2 in class. One (not mine) had perfect SAT scores (255 in current class have perfect SATs), mine had a 35, then a 36 on the ACT. Both eagle scouts. GPAs in excess of 4.0. Both had taken the SAT subject matter II tests which I highly encourage. Universities will say "not required but highly encouraged" but they really want to see what you can do in a relevant subject on those SAT subject matter tests, especially if you are going into the Sciences. Both had finished Calculus BC. College confidential keeps repeating that UVA seems to seek out a well-rounded, kind sort of person. That has been my experience.

[Anonymous]

Well, look at this. Click on the part that says "history over the last few years"

http://admission.virginia.edu/waitlist

[Anonymous]

What is the deal with UVA Wise? Are they trying to be Texas A&M by farming out students to a regional campus with UVA name?

[Anonymous]

This may be useful. Posted today by Dean J (UVA Dean of Admissions) regarding the UVA waitlist process: Let's Talk about #UVA21 Decisions: The Waiting List
Students offered a spot on the waiting list can use this entry to talk.

This is probably the toughest decision to get from a school. At UVA, the waiting list tends to be large because there are so many different segments to the population here (VA and OOS groups for each of the four schools and the one program that take first year students). At this point, we don't know where there will be openings in the class.

We won't know how large the waiting list is until you all accept or decline your waiting list offers. Right now, you've been offered a spot on the list. You aren't actually on it until you reply using the response buttons in SIS (you have until May 1st to do this).

Still, the numbers can change dramatically from year-to-year. We took 42 students off the waiting list in 2015 and made 402 waiting list offers the next year.

For now, you need to look at your other options and think about which one feels right to you. Some of you will want to hold on and see what happens with the waiting list and others will want to fully invest themselves in another school. Either way, you need to submit a deposit somewhere by May 1st to ensure yourself a spot in a freshman class. If you are offered a spot in our class and you decide to accept it, you'll have to write to that other school and withdraw your name from the class (you may lose your deposit at that school). Just remember that you can't "double deposit".

Feel free chat here. You should have already seen the link to the waiting list FAQ page in your decision letter, which answers the most common questions (is the list ranked, what do I do now, what's the time line, etc.).


We hope you find a peaceful place to think about your options
Posted by Dean J at 4:56 PM 53 Comments
Labels: regular decision, waiting list, waitlist

[Anonymous]

Oh yes they can. . These kids live on their cell phones. They know college results even before the parents do. They form "UVA 2021" groups. They share their information. The class has numerous chat rooms set up by various college names or aspirations. The moment something happens my DD gets a ping. Then after they get into a college and accept it, they created new chat rooms and facebook pages to welcome one another and make friends before they even show. The latter I think is healthy - the former, not so.

No one ever lies or exaggerates in those chats, right? Ha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

Yup. The legacy transfers must wait behind the NVCC kids too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She'll find a uva bro to wife her in D.C. In a few years. No biggie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two that got in from our high school have similar profiles. Top 1 or 2 in class. One (not mine) had perfect SAT scores (255 in current class have perfect SATs), mine had a 35, then a 36 on the ACT. Both eagle scouts. GPAs in excess of 4.0. Both had taken the SAT subject matter II tests which I highly encourage. Universities will say "not required but highly encouraged" but they really want to see what you can do in a relevant subject on those SAT subject matter tests, especially if you are going into the Sciences. Both had finished Calculus BC. College confidential keeps repeating that UVA seems to seek out a well-rounded, kind sort of person. That has been my experience.

You're saying that 255 kids in the class have perfect SATs and only 2 got into UVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The two that got in from our high school have similar profiles. Top 1 or 2 in class. One (not mine) had perfect SAT scores (255 in current class have perfect SATs), mine had a 35, then a 36 on the ACT. Both eagle scouts. GPAs in excess of 4.0. Both had taken the SAT subject matter II tests which I highly encourage. Universities will say "not required but highly encouraged" but they really want to see what you can do in a relevant subject on those SAT subject matter tests, especially if you are going into the Sciences. Both had finished Calculus BC. College confidential keeps repeating that UVA seems to seek out a well-rounded, kind sort of person. That has been my experience.

255 people in your kid's graduating class have perfect SAT scores? This can't be right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two that got in from our high school have similar profiles. Top 1 or 2 in class. One (not mine) had perfect SAT scores (255 in current class have perfect SATs), mine had a 35, then a 36 on the ACT. Both eagle scouts. GPAs in excess of 4.0. Both had taken the SAT subject matter II tests which I highly encourage. Universities will say "not required but highly encouraged" but they really want to see what you can do in a relevant subject on those SAT subject matter tests, especially if you are going into the Sciences. Both had finished Calculus BC. College confidential keeps repeating that UVA seems to seek out a well-rounded, kind sort of person. That has been my experience.

255 people in your kid's graduating class have perfect SAT scores? This can't be right.

I read this as 255 kids in the accepted class at UVA have perfect scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

Well, now you know who:

http://research.schev.edu/apps/info/CC_Feedback.Northern-Virginia-Community-College.ashx

2014-15 207 NVCC students transferred to UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The two that got in from our high school have similar profiles. Top 1 or 2 in class. One (not mine) had perfect SAT scores (255 in current class have perfect SATs), mine had a 35, then a 36 on the ACT. Both eagle scouts. GPAs in excess of 4.0. Both had taken the SAT subject matter II tests which I highly encourage. Universities will say "not required but highly encouraged" but they really want to see what you can do in a relevant subject on those SAT subject matter tests, especially if you are going into the Sciences. Both had finished Calculus BC. College confidential keeps repeating that UVA seems to seek out a well-rounded, kind sort of person. That has been my experience.

255 people in your kid's graduating class have perfect SAT scores? This can't be right.

I read this as 255 kids in the accepted class at UVA have perfect scores.

That's correct. http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/university-releases-admission-decisions-for-class-of-2020

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

Well, now you know who:

http://research.schev.edu/apps/info/CC_Feedback.Northern-Virginia-Community-College.ashx

2014-15 207 NVCC students transferred to UVA.

Thanks. I've never seen that before. I still don't know anyone's child who has done it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

Well, now you know who:

http://research.schev.edu/apps/info/CC_Feedback.Northern-Virginia-Community-College.ashx

2014-15 207 NVCC students transferred to UVA.

Thanks. I've never seen that before. I still don't know anyone's child who has done it.

My roommate at UVA was a transfer from community college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbor's daughter didn't get in. . She's crushed.

She can try to transfer in.

You're right about going to NVCC, taking the right courses and maintaining the required GPA. The peculiar thing is that no one does it, at least in my own experience of watching two huge high school classes go thru the college app process. I have a DC at UVA right now. The program is a real smart move, especially if cost is an issue, but maintain the GPA at NVCC (remember these are college grades, not high school grading) is tough. Also, a lot of kids drop out of NVCC. Finally, my DC as a rising HS senior took a class at NVCC and the professor was beyond horrible. She was truly just phoning it in as an adjunct.

The other interesting fact I've learned from reading College Confidential is that regular transfers (coming in from somewhere other than NVCC) are placed behind the NVCC transfers. So apparently someone is coming in to UVA from NVCC but I don't know who. Those who are transferring in from say GMU or any private, go behind the NVCC applicants - so it's a lot easier to say one can transfer in than it really is.

Yup. The legacy transfers must wait behind the NVCC kids too.

True, or is that snark? Idon't know the answer. I have a non-legacy DS at UVA. I tried a quick search about stats for waive-ins for legacies but either didn't look in the right place or didn't try hard enough. Like most institutions the emphasis seems to be on getting first generation kids instead of legacies. https://www.news.virginia.edu/content/increase-first-generation-students-highlights-applicant-pool-class-2019