UVA Early Action

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Anonymous wrote:For RD plus deferrals - roughly 20,000 applicants - there are 300 spots. To yield those 300 students, there will be about 750 admits. See the math higher in the thread. Repeating here because people keep asking this question.

How on earth do they even have enough readers to give each application the attention it deserves?

Narrator: they don’t.

The big schools have a team of readers that work during the applications review period. They can work remotely. There are a few Berkeley readers in the area.

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So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

if it’s any consolation, there are a list of students posting in College Confidential who had much higher credentials who were deferred or rejected (I didn’t even know a 7.0 gpa was possible)

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

Which CA schools? UC's are just as difficult they do seem to like OOS though so wish your child the best of luck..

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

Which CA schools? UC's are just as difficult they do seem to like OOS though so wish your child the best of luck..

All state schools are/will be tough this year for OOS kids given the high local demand. With CA getting rid of SATs, all the optional peeps will be applying in strength and negatively impact OOS admits. IMO, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

Which CA schools? UC's are just as difficult they do seem to like OOS though so wish your child the best of luck..

All state schools are/will be tough this year for OOS kids given the high local demand. With CA getting rid of SATs, all the optional peeps will be applying in strength and negatively impact OOS admits. IMO, of course.

I hear you, that was based on past data but as we all see this year is the wild wild west. It's also important to note the UC and CS system is impacted and serving the populace of some small nations it's extremely difficult to get into top UC's.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

Wow, congratulations, that will be hard for some to take, DD must have had a brilliant essay.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

Wow, congratulations, that will be hard for some to take, DD must have had a brilliant essay.

Probably URM, low-income, first-generation, legacy, etc. etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

Wow, congratulations, that will be hard for some to take, DD must have had a brilliant essay.

I think it helped that she applied to uva engineering as a female applicant, and double legacy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

Wow, congratulations, that will be hard for some to take, DD must have had a brilliant essay.

I think it helped that she applied to uva engineering as a female applicant, and double legacy.

Congratulations!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I guess with CA offers coming later, I can only hope that our 4.3 GPA, 1460 SAT, APs all 5s, work experience, ECs, kid is good enough for them, since UVA didn’t think so...

UVA doesn't care about 5s on APs . . .

+1

DD got in ED, haven't taken the APs test yet..gpa 4.2 and 1510, no ECs besides hackathons since she's into CS

Wow, congratulations, that will be hard for some to take, DD must have had a brilliant essay.

I think it helped that she applied to uva engineering as a female applicant, and double legacy.

Congratulations!

Congrats!!

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Anonymous wrote:For the bitterly disappointed and jealous parents: you should have worked to get your state legislature to insist on increasing the class size.

UVA is landlocked and can't grow much at all. The city has grown up around it. That's why the legislature is pumping money into the other universities and why Virginia has 40 other great options to chose from. The one time I am aware of a representative introducing a bill to enlarge the class, the bill never made it out of committee. It was for show only to the constituents

Nope.

JMU expanded significantly and I believe it gets less money per student than any other Virginia public college.

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Anonymous wrote:So I had a kid enter UVA in 2009. He had a 1970 SAT on the old scale, which I just calculated would be a 1360 on the new scale. He was below the mean on the SAT both then and now by about the same amount.

Why is everybody saying that admissions are so much more competitive now, then? Yes, there are more applications, but the stats for those admitted and enrolling haven't changed all that much.

Yes, the statistics have changed dramatically. The entire world of college admissions has changed in just the last few years, not to mention the eleven years ago. My DD recently graduated. She would not get into UVA today, I am confident. Her GPA and test scores are too low for a white student from NOVA.

If you are applying from NoVA for UVA you need to be in the top ten percent of your class although some college counselors now say top five percent. The 75th percentile GPA of ENROLLED students last fall was a 4.48; median was 4.34 and 25th percentile was a 4.20. ACTs were 34 at the 75th percentile. SAT was 1480 at the 75th percentile. A 1360 would place around the 35th percentile of enrolled students. BUT, the lower percentiles are predominantly used for URMs, low-income, first-generation, unusually talents, athletes, legacies, and other special interest groups. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Except here's the thing: My 2009 kid was none of those things. He was an UMC white kid with no hooks from a NOVA public. He was in the 35th percentile of enrolled students then, too. So I'm not sure you're right about that. Lots of fear mongering and exaggerations going on.

The point is that he wouldn't get in today. He needs a 4.48+ GPA and a 1480+ or a 34+ ACT to get in from NOVA. He needs to have taken the most rigorous courses offered by his public. He needs spectacular ECs. He needs to appear well-rounded. And so on. My 4.1 kid wouldn't get in - but he got in four years ago. If you care enough, you can go to College Confidential and read the thread "UVA 2025 EA" and look at the spectacular resumes of students who were deferred or rejected. That's your true competition now.

edit: my 4.1 kid wouldnt get into UVA today.

But they may have higher than a 4.1 if they were coming through today.