<p>Is it easier to enter U.Va if apply to college of engineering, or college of arts and sciences?
Or do you just apply to U.Va, and decide later what college you want?</p>
<p>What is chance of acceptance for an in-state rising senior applicant?</p>
<p>STATS:
3.7 GPA (they don't do weighted, or class rank, at her school)</p>
<p>She has the rigor of classes they want</p>
<p>2170 SAT</p>
<p>will be NMfinalist</p>
<p>few extracurriculars--a few clubs, but no leadership
band for several years
student ambassador in senior year</p>
<p>In state her stats are pretty good to start with. At UVA you do aply to a particular college or school. I believe it is a bad idea to choose it based on relative ease of admission. Just apply to the one where she wants to study. </p>
<p>Work with your school's advisor to beef up her ECs. An EC doesn't have to be a formal group or program. Just think about where her time goes. That is her EC. If it is hanging out at the mall with friends, then that won't help much. But if it is reading, running, visiting her grandmother, babysitting, etc., her advisor can help her write up those experiences as her ECs.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the school wants to know who she is, not have her cram herself into some box that seems like a good candidate. She is who she is and you can make sure all of her positive attributes come through.</p>
<p>Again, trying to figure out the easiest way to "get in" means that one day you will wake up and realize you have not spent enough time figuring out what you want to study and enjoy studying. </p>
<p>That said, there are some notable admission rate differences between the schools. The stats for 2007:</p>
<p>Architecture 32%
A&S 33%
SEAS (Engineering) 49%
Nursing 23%</p>
<p>I thought of one other point. If you know you do not want to stay in engineering, but apply there anyway just to increase your admission chances, you are taking a slot away from some kid who very much wants to study engineering at UVA. Not cool.</p>
<p>If you truly think you might want to try engineering, and the admission stats swings your decision, then so be it. But don't game the system and mess up others.</p>
<p>True. I'm the mom and I have been suggesting on rare occasions for over a year (i.e. not nagging) that D try engineering in college, just for the first year and see what she thinks. </p>
<p>She has the ability, 700 math SAT score, 29 math ACT, without studying for either one. Currently in calculus and will take the hardest physics class next year (calculus based) and will be finishing up with calculus 3 by graduation. </p>
<p>She could do chem eng instead of her current choice of chemistry. A smarter choice for later employment, anyway.</p>
<p>I really want her older civ eng brother to be talking to her about college. She doesn't really know anything about eng. </p>
<p>I would sure have thought that eng would be a harder college to get into than the others. But I guess so few applying specify eng that must be why they get accepted. And of course, a lot of eng majors go to Va Tech.</p>
<p>You're going to push your D into "trying" engineering when she has already stated her interest in chemistry? That is probably one of the worst mistakes you could do. Let her choose her own education path. Just because she did stellar on her math tests does not mean she will be successful. Instead, she might blow her GPA and any job chance later on in life.</p>
<p>Don't apply to engineering unless you're absolutely positive you want to do it. Otherwise you have to re-apply to the other colleges w/in UVA for a transfer.</p>
<p>In general, most engineering and com students tend to launch their work careers after undergrad, right? How many get to have their further education funded by their employers?</p>
<p>I've thought of engineering/commerce/medicine namely because I fear that if I stay along the arts&sciences route I may turn out to be an "all theory and no action" kind of guy. That is, I like the "applied sciences" aspect, with emphasis on the "applied". But at the same time, I don't want to be stuck in those fields for the rest of my life.</p>