Regular decision at UVA

[Anonymous]

DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

[Anonymous]

ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

[Anonymous]

Zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Why is this year going to be tough?

[Anonymous]

If in state probably would’ve gotten in ED but I highly doubt RD. If out of state, nope sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

No it doesn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

No it doesn't.

Yes it does. When comparing students in the same percentile, the essays are a differentiator.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

No it doesn't.

Yes it does. When comparing students in the same percentile, the essays are a differentiator.

Not based on my experience. I had two kids get in with run-of-the-mill essays, and neither kid was off the charts on grades or test scores either. And the same percentile? What does that even mean?

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Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

No it doesn't.

Yes it does. When comparing students in the same percentile, the essays are a differentiator.

Not based on my experience. I had two kids get in with run-of-the-mill essays, and neither kid was off the charts on grades or test scores either. And the same percentile? What does that even mean?

Many schools don't rank, they use percentiles. At our school, we have fair amount of kids that are in the same GPA range. Admissions doesn't say, "Let's take the 4.44 kid over the 4.43 kid." They look at the entire application to determine offers. It's not a perfect process and great students don't get accepted every cycle. The process is also subjective, so again, not perfect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Why is this year going to be tough?

This year’s GPA cutoffs seemed higher. Also, not many slots left for RD.

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Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Why is this year going to be tough?

This year’s GPA cutoffs seemed higher. Also, not many slots left for RD.

This. They have admitted most of the class already and have over 20,000 apps (between RD and defers from EA) for very, very few spots.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECs don’t matter much for UVA. This year will be really tough for your son.

Why is this year going to be tough?

This year’s GPA cutoffs seemed higher. Also, not many slots left for RD.

This. They have admitted most of the class already and have over 20,000 apps (between RD and defers from EA) for very, very few spots.

Someone did the math in the ED thread and there are only about 300 spots left to fill in RD.

[Anonymous]

I'd mentally move on. VERY few spaces remaining. It will be an extremely long shot with those stats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DS HAS GPA 4.3 AND SAT 1430 WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF GOOD ECS, APPLIED FOR CS, WHAT ARE THE CHANCES FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Depends on essays, course load rigor, and high school. The chance is certainly not zero as the PP said. We had lots of defers at our high school during the EA round. Many schools don't do class rank, but your son needs to be in the top 5%. A 4.3 at our high school is top 10%. We have a 6 point grading scale, so GPAs can be misleading.

According to the GPA/SAT comparison, OP's son likely doesn't have the course/school rigor such as those at TJ. So the chance is slim.