Another chance me post among the millions

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello! Just another senior among the millions here.
Am applying to UVA ED 1 and W&M ED 2 (have no idea if this is possible/allowed if ED 1 doesn’t go as well)

Colleges applying to: UVA (ED I), W&M (ED II), GWU, Wisconsin-Madison, Maryland-College Park, VT, Syracuse, GMU

SAT I (breakdown): 1480 (730 Reading, 750 Math)

SAT II: 770 US History, 730 World History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a, county does not report/calculate
Weighted GPA: 4.083 (GPA excludes senior year)
Rank: County does not rank.
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (4), APUSH (5), AP Psych (4), AP World (4), AP Latin (not submitting), AP Lang (not submitting)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro/Micro, AP Gov/Comp Gov, AP Stat, AP Human Geo, AP Lit, APES, Advanced Orchestra

Major Awards:
Not much lol

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

-High School Politics Club (Founder and Prez, got a few cool guests in such as Senator Saslaw, a Delegate, and a member of the House of Representatives during meetings)
-Model UN (Just a typical member, nothing special)
-School Symphony Orchestra Asst. Concertmaster
-SRO for a few years now
-Spent a summer internship at a Delegate’s office doing mostly COVID related stuff in helping out senior citizens for the district!
-Math Honor Society, Music Honor Society, History Honor Society (applying for two of the honor society for officer, have no idea for music honor society but probably history honor society seeing as it’s near empty lol)
-Civil Air Patrol! A few cadre positions here and there!
-AYP for a few years
-Minor volunteering in Church with lil’ kids in orchestra stuff, nothing that important
-Oh I’m also fluent in Korean if that helps, probably not.

Essays and Reccs (rating 1-10, details):

Typical essay. No idea about reccs.

Other Details:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: PoliSci/Int. Relations, somewhere in that area
State: Virginia
School Type: Typical NoVA HS.
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 75k
Hooks: I have anti-hooks. Ouch.

My other question is whether or not I should apply for a “hail mary” school, meaning a “mid/high reach” that you just put in because there might be a chance. I’ve seen alot of people do it on the forums over the years as well as the majority of people I know irl. I dunno if UVA is on a “hail mary” category or just a reach category. If UVA is the latter, what schools should my one “hail mary” application school be?

Please let me know if I have anything wrong. Thank you.

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Just to clarify- when I mean “anti-hooks”, I’m talking just having certain demographics that tend not to be highlighted upon. Oh well, it is what it is, just moving on from that. Also, for volunteering, I just put the comment of “not that special/important”- but I’m not sure what IS special either, so just to put that on the safe side haha

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Acceptance rates at UVA for in-state students is about 32%. I am not sure what their mean GPA is, but your SAT is above their average.

So UVA is a reach, but likely not a high reach, and not a “Hail Mary”.

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Oh and quick correction to the essay thing- just put down “typical” because I have no idea how to “rate” an essay both in comparison to myself and others so decided to put a modest, default “typical”. Perhaps might redo the essay?

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Just a update weighted GPA is now a 4.176

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I’m pretty sure colleges unweight GPA since schools have different scales. Our highest weighted GPA is 4.4, I’ve seen school that go up to 5.

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You said you applied ED1 and ED2. You’ve just updated us with your GPA, which is useful, but I’m wondering where else you applied for sure. Still the same colleges as above? I am assuming that you weren’t accepted to either UVA or W&M?

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Wait I think I miscalculated the gpa