<p>For those of you who got accepted, please post the number of AP courses you took, your unweighted GPA, and weighted GPA. This would help me a lot. Thanks.</p>
<p>Hello there! Im from NYC too. If you have any questions, just IM me. Im an Echols scholar Class of 2010.</p>
<p>Lil_Killer,</p>
<p>In the Fall, the UVa Club of NY hosts an admissions night at the Yale Club located on the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. & 44th St. It's kitty corner from Grand Central. (FYI, we share a clubhouse w/ Yale and Dartmouth). The event is usually hosted by one of the Deans of Admission and features a panel of recent graduates. In August, send an email to the UVa Club about the event, and our Executive Director will give you the details. The Club's email address is: <a href="mailto:uvanyc@uvanyc.org">uvanyc@uvanyc.org</a></p>
<p>Hey, I'm from Los Angeles and I'll be attending UVA in the class of 2010 as an Echols Scholar. To answer your questions, I didn't take ALL the AP courses my school offered. I followed an AP track in English, History, Studio Art, and foreign language (mine was French), but not in math or science. I took some advanced science courses, but I didn't even take a math course my senior year. I went up to regular Calculus, finished that, didn't waste my time on an AP, and dropped math altogether. I don't like math much. :) I think it actually worked in my favor because I was very sincere; I didn't kiss ass by taking classes I hated, I showed genuine interest in those I liked. </p>
<p>My weighted GPA at the end of all this was a 3.92--I don't know what it was unweighted. The lowest grade on my transcript was a B+ in a regular course. I had mostly A-s with a few As and a couple B+s. My school doesn't release rankings, but I know I was ranked about 20th out of 100 students. I go to a private college prep school full of overachievers; the top 25 students all have GPAs within .3 points of each other (4.2-3.9).</p>
<p>I got a 2280 on my SATs: 800 critical reading, 800 writing, 680 math. Haha...again with the math.</p>
<p>I was involved in sports and a few clubs. I was president of one of the clubs (French Club), but nothing amazing or outstanding.</p>
<p>For UVA, I think it's important to write good essays and be sincere. I think they see past a lot of the grade bullcrap that some many people are preoccupied with here on CC. I tried to make sure my app really reflected who I am, and it worked for me. :) Good luck!!</p>
<p>Good to have someone from Cali going to UVA! yay.</p>
<p>Are you from far away, too, tenniscraze?</p>
<p>Hmmm</p>
<p>3.9 Weighted... dunno what it was unweighted
2250 SATs? 790 Math 770 CR 690 Writing >.></p>
<p>I've taken 8 APs and 2 duel enrollment classes
AP Lang, AP Lit
AP US, AP Gov
AP Calc BC
AP Bio, AP Physics B
AP Music Theory
Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra</p>
<p>and I'm going to be going to UVA as Echols ^ ^ Class of 2010</p>
<p>White male, oos legacy- deferred ed, accepted rd.
-5 aps (AP eng. lit, world hist.- 4, us hist.- 5, biology, and european hist.)
-uw gpa- 3.9 (93 out of 100)
-w gpa- 4.07 (94.5/100%)
sats- (m-640, cr- 650, writ- 670)</p>
<p>Yeah man, I'm like from the other side of the world - I've lived in Indonesia for the past 4 years of my life. I lived in Stanford for about 2 months and really like people from Cali; I've always wanted to be in the West Coast for college but it didn't quite work out that way. We have only quite a number of students from Cali here - my friend Kim from San Francisco, and Jessica from San Diego. I can't wait to go to Stanford this summer although it's only just for 3 days. Where are u from?</p>
<p>3.957 Weighted</p>
<p>1850 SAT ; 670M, 590V, 590W</p>
<p>7APs but 9 AP Tests
(AP Comparative Gov (which is AP GOV, and AP COMP GOV)), AP Physics C (E&M and Mechanics), AP Lit, AP Lang, AP HMN GEO, AP CALC BC, AP US HISTORY</p>
<p>In-state</p>
<p>But, I am doing uVA: School of Engineering which admits like 1/4 less then uVA: CaS</p>
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<p>What do you mean?</p>
<p>I'm from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Are Kim and Jessica going to UVA or the Stanford thing?</p>
<p>Kim and Jess are already UVA students.</p>
<p>i think he meant that the engineering school accepts 1/4 as many as the college does. but then again they also get like 1/9 the applications :-/</p>
<p>No... uVA: SoE gets 1/3 as many application as uVA: CAS, but Cas I believe accepts a plurality while uVA: SoE is capped at 500 students a class. I think uVA: SoA (Architecture is even more restrictive)</p>
<p>SEAS is easier to get into than CLAS</p>
<p>I wouldn't say it's easier to get in to SEAS than in to CLAS. The incoming class each year in the school of engineering has higher SAT's than CLAS and comparable class ranks. It is not easier to get in to SEAS, unless maybe you're a female, although that goes for any engineering school.</p>
<p>true, but dont the majority apply to CLAS? My friend had like 1240 SATs and was 29/320, instate and he got into SEAS. I dont think he would have gotten into CLAS, or would he have?</p>
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<p>Yes, and? The acceptance rate of the engineering school tends to be higher, but due to the higher stats of its incoming students, it's possible that the applicant pool to the e-school is, on average, better qualified than the applicant pool to CLAS. In addition, SEAS's lower yield (~45%) indicates that the top portion of the accepted students pool may be heading off to higher ranked schools, like Duke and Cornell.</p>
<p>oh i see what your saying. interesting very interesting.</p>