<p>I thought this might be interesting and useful to applicants, alumni and current students:</p>
<p>The data are from 2003, though I doubt things have changed much since then.</p>
<p>Interesting and useful or inflammatory and divisive?</p>
<p>Why do I suspect the latter. No doubt you will play innocent now. Whatever.</p>
<p>????</p>
<p>I found an interesting link while looking up law school data on google. I thought I'd share it. Is it not interesting to you, neurotic? Should I not post here anymore? Geez.</p>
<p>wow, thats interesting. thanks cav. Im Asian and I have like a lower chance of getting in than all the races, damn that blows. My parents were born in Africa though, and both speak swahili fluently. Im really Indian, but technically i could have put african american. How would UVA know?</p>
<p>when you send in you're picture with your application, they probably would have known. For some reason, while it isn't exactly right or moral, I think UVa asks for that picture just so they can at least superficially confirm whatever you mark down your race is.</p>
<p>Also, I don't think 1 or 2% points either way makes a big difference, especially since there are so many fewer asian and hispanic applicants. I'm sure its statistically insignificant as only a handful of applicants could shift the % points up or down. I wouldn't worry that as an asian you would have a harder time or that as an hispanic you have an easier time. </p>
<p>Also, the edge hispanics get is mislead in the article. Because there are so many fewer hispanic applicants, I doubt that those comparisons on the SAT chart can be that substantial a find. I believe I read somewhere that only about 500 or so hispanic people even apply. Even if hispanics are placed in an entirely different group of applicants, they're still taken at about the same rate...they're just compared to each other rather than the entire group. And since we've established in about 97,348 of these threads that UVa doesn't favor SATs that much, I find that the SAT charts are pretty insignificant.</p>
<p>Overall, it seems UVa favoritism seems to only significantly affect black students.</p>
<p>One girl from my high school who goes to uva has parents that were born in Argentina, even though both were of Russian origin (with an obviously Russian last name). She was born in the US, and she counts as a Hispanic.</p>
<p>This is gonna turn ugly fast...</p>
<p>sv3a</p>
<p>I was editing my post while you posted, please re read it. I wouldn't get too bent out of shape.</p>
<p>picture?? i never sent my pic in, they never asked on the application</p>
<p>Okay folks, I see potential for people to get really worked up and apopletic on this thread. It's a holiday so everyone please be respectful and play nice. To that end, Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah and have a safe holiday!</p>
<p>I'm heading out to the airport to catch my 6am flight home to Alabama. Ugh! I just hope the traffic problems caused by the NY transit strike is finally cleared up. I can totally see a taxi driver trying to gouge me w/ a $50 fee for a trip to LaGuardia. (Also, can you believe that yesterday it took one cab 4 hours to get from the Upper West Side to SoHo? Normally, it would take 30 minutes. I don't know why my friend didn't just get out of the cab and start walking herself. It would have probably been faster.)</p>
<p>haha agreed globalist. </p>
<p>Everyone, I didn't mean to start a controversy, I was just analyzing the article as I saw it.</p>
<p>and thrills, I guess they got rid of that? When i applied they specifically asked for a picture of you lol. i just threw a senior portrait in. I never thought anything of it until my mom made a comment about it recently lol. </p>
<p>the picture could have just been a paper application thing...as i didn't believe in doing applications online. I always thought you could present yourself better in paper than on the internet anyway. Anywho, you should have seen the stack of 10 paper applications i filled out with this ancient mechanical typewriter. It wasn't even electrical!</p>
<p>Oh well, its no big deal im sure. but good luck! and merry xmas everyone!</p>
<p>Well, whatever the politics of the matter, it's more data than I've seen UVa release before. It will help in the future to answer the constantly-asked forum question: what are my chances? For a data hound, this is a veritable gold mine. Thanks for the link.</p>
<p>And merry Christmas to everyone! Now THAT's controversial!</p>
<p>I found this article very informative and helpful, I myself am an African American who wants to apply to uva in the future seems like i would have a good chance after looking at that information</p>
<p>I found the data interesting, but would have liked to see the SAT scores by race (and other info) broken out by out of state and in-state applicants.</p>
<p>Don't mean to hjack the thread, bu UVA doesn't ask for a picture...</p>
<p>does it?</p>
<p>when i applied 2 years ago (i was hs class of 2004), on the paper application, they asked for a picture. there even was a little box where you could paste it in lol. Either its not an integral part of the application anymore because everyone does it online, or they stopped asking for it. But when i applied, they asked for one.</p>
<p>When I applied to UVA last year using the paper application, I don't remember them asking me for a picture. I never sent one.</p>
<p>well obviously its not asked for anymore so i think we can drop the issue</p>
<p>no pictures.</p>
<p>so just to clarify there are no pictures on the application? ;)</p>