<p>What's going to hurt you is not your test scores, but your lack luster grade record. Even in your intended major, your grades are on the weak side. Your 800 only makes those B's and C's in math stand out even more. I think your grades put UVA, Northeastern, Rutgers, TCNJ and JMU in the reach category.
The others may be matches.</p>
<p>Of course, I don't have your application in front of me, nor do I have a crystal ball. I hope you prove me entirely wrong!!! Good luck!</p>
<p>hey- i was just searching through schools with va tech and jmu (both my top two) and found this forum. i actually think that jmu is easier to get into vt now that techs football team has become so popular. jmu also looks strongly at the essays- which you said were original and good- so i think you have a better chance of getting into jmu than tech. my sister is at tech, and is having a hard time with the big class sizes, but her friend is at jmu and loves it there, the food has won national awards and you will love the ratio of guys to girls.</p>
<p>Lots of kids transfer from Va Tech to UVa. Keep that in mind</p>
<p>I think that people overestimate the difficulty of getting into UVA on this forum. Each year at my school, there are about 20 students in a graduating class of about 150 who go to UVA. And that's just a fraction of the students who were accepted. And those who were accepted (which I'd estimate at around 50-70, considering UVA's acceptance yield rate), are out of just the fraction of the class who applied (which would be 80-120 or so). Now, if you were a VA student applying for the Jefferson scholarship, then that would be a different story.</p>
<p>OOS students are judged on an entirely different expectations re stat standards that only compare with those slots at schools like Michigan or Chapel Hill for OOS kids. Many students with A averages and grade records with no Cs are denied a place at UVa in the northern Virginia corridor because a large portion of each senior class is high performing. There is controversy about whether or not UVa should up the percentage of instate students in order to serve their own honors grads better. North Carolina Chapel Hill caps OOS by 15% but we admit almost 30% OOS. Having geographical diversity makes UVa a cooler diverse place and ups the ante in terms of SAT averages per class admitted, but it is sometimes not fair to our own state residents who had reason to hope their kids would be in Charlottesville.</p>
<p>The great thing about getting into UVa from out of state is that you know they've filled the bottom half of the class with "honors" grads from middle and southern Virginia</p>
<p>How can your essays be really good if you are a mediocre English student?</p>
<p>I wrote an essay that was interesting, original, and showed who I am. This essay is better than a persons essay who is boring, and is brilliant at writing, IMO anyway.</p>
<p>in-state UVA is really a joke if u have a 1500+ SAT and 3.9+(5+APs) GPA. Seriously, i've seen someone only with Korean club as their EC get into UVA RD. The Korean Club only meets like three times a year and basically all they do is like socialize no major activities. This guy took quite a few APs and had a good SAT score with a good UW GPA. Those of u who might ask he might be URM or hooked or have relationships with UVA I will tell u in advance. He's Korean no such URM. He's parents are from korean colleges and have basically come here for two to three years as part of a steel company in korea. He has no citizenship and no ties to UVA. Really no hooks. This kid is really the studying type of asian.
I live in McLean VA which is Northern VA so i know that the standard for UVA is a little higher here. Anyways everyone knows that getting into UVA in-state is really all about scores and maybe essays. ECs really have a small impact.</p>
<p>umm... who doesnt expect a kid w/ a 3.9 and 1500 sat to get into uva regardless of EC's.. we arent talking about harvard or stanford here</p>
<p>i'm just saying UVA isn't that hard in-state. We have like 20-30 people getting into UVA and W&M separately. The people who get aren't that smart btw. I had classes with them so i know</p>
<p>last time i checked i thought it was pretty difficult to get a 1500/1600 on the SAT's</p>
<p>Get your apps in early and you will have a better shot-I think you may be OK at Rutgers-they let you apply to several different colleges within the Rutgers system applying to Rutgers College and Livingston as a math major and Busch as engineering.</p>
<p>I think JMU is a little easier to get into than Tech.</p>