<p>What is the average GPA and SAT/ACT test scores of accepted freshmen at UVA? If you guys dont know the average, then please tell me what would be good enough to get accepted. Does anybody know what they tend to look at in someones application? What extracurriculars would impress them?</p>
<p>The testing stats will be updated at some point over the summer. </p>
<p>As for GPAs…</p>
<p>[Notes</a> from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Let’s talk about GPAs](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2010/01/lets-talk-about-gpas.html]Notes”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: Let's talk about GPAs)</p>
<p>Also…</p>
<p>[Notes</a> from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: The specialist vs. the generalist when it comes to extracurricular activities](<a href=“http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2010/10/specialist-vs-generalist-when-it-comes.html]Notes”>Notes from Peabody: The UVA Application Process: The specialist vs. the generalist when it comes to extracurricular activities)</p>
<p>On my visit to Days on the Lawn, the speaker said the class of 2015 had an average sat of 2007. I think thats in and out of state.</p>
<p>My daughter (in state) got a 2230 on her SAT and has a 4.2 GPA, varsity sport, AP classes each year of High School, lots of involvement with her Youth Group at Church …and…according to her high school guidance counselor, UVA would be a “safety” school…she was waitlisted…but, many of her classmates with lower scores and grades got accepted…so go figure…</p>
<p>Essays matter a lot. GPA and test scores will not get you in, nor will cookie cutter extra curricular. You need to capitalize on selling your self like a product, what do you have that makes you unique and why does UVA need to have you as a student. Your essays give yout he opportunity to voice your advertisement.</p>
<p>UVA isn’t a safety school for anyone!</p>
<p>Not exactly sure what about my post makes you think that my daughter’s extra cur. activities are “cookie cutter” …but they are not…she is involved with programs and ministries that she believes in… and I was very proud of her essay…it highlighted who she is as a person and and what she is passionate about…</p>
<p>A major university could care less if you’re daughter is a good person. They want alumnae that they see potential in, either for future leaders that will make UVA look good, or future millionaires that will donate a lot of money to the university. Maybe the only school that care a little about ministries and faith are jesuit schools such as Villanova or Loyola.</p>
<p>@Missy1 </p>
<p>I was not referring to your daughter when I said cookie cutter EC. I was suggesting to the OP what he should avoid. I commend your daughter on her missionary work and I am sure your daughter wrote a honorable essay. I was simply suggesting to the OP how he should approach the app. process. I thought I made this clear when said ,“You need to capitalize on selling…”. This could not possibly apply to your daughter since she already completed the process.</p>
<p>I agree with @urm1216</p>
<p>urm1216 “A major university could care less if you’re daughter is a good person. They want alumnae that they see potential in, either for future leaders that will make UVA look good, or future millionaires that will donate a lot of money to the university.”</p>
<p>Bigshot3008 “I agree with @urm1216”</p>
<p>You guys are really cynical for your age. Or, perhaps realistic. If so, TJ will be rolling over in his grave. UVA website “For Thomas Jefferson, learning was an integral part of life. The “academical village” is based on the assumption that the life of the mind is a pursuit for all participants in the University, that learning is a lifelong and shared process, and that interaction between scholars and students enlivens the pursuit of knowledge.”</p>
<p>You really don’t think a university, UVa specifically, cares if you are a good person? You don’t think they care about your character? If you don’t think the honor code at UVa is a big deal you have got another thing coming. I am not saying it’s perfect, but it does indeed matter. </p>
<p>If you didn’t notice along with your orientation information was sent information on Project Serve. When your university sends you information on getting involved in the community before you even get there, not because you ask but because there is a tradition of service, I believe that speaks volumes not only of the types of students that are selected, but the types of students that select UVa.</p>
<p>Many people have recommended the importance of coming across as likeable in your essays. If someone comes across as an arrogant braggard who joins lots of clubs just to fill a resume, that does not come across well.</p>
<p>In one of my son’s UVa essays, he wrote about a topic that was not intellectual at all, but was heart-felt. My wife and I tried to talk him out of sending it, but he did, and he was admitted.</p>
<p>Plue, I believe that average SAT score was 2070, not 2007.</p>
<p>Urm said " could care less", implying there is still space to care even less than they already do. You can be the nicest person in the world but if your app does not show potential you will not be accepted. Of course they are interested in what type of person you are but most colleges list their criteria as: course rigor, gpa, SAT , at the top, not personality or community service. I can not speak for urn but this is what I think he means.</p>
<p>If I am a file reader I will be looking for the following types of students:
Natural Geniuses,
Students with High GPA and High Test Scores,
Future Leaders,
Future Millionaires,
Diversity/URM’s/First Generation students/Low Income
Athletes
Well rounded students that represent whatever the university stands for</p>
<p>That is what they are looking for, and of course they are trying to bring in genuinely good kids that will make campus life enjoyable for other students, but this alone I think is more of a tie breaker between applications. They want a genius that is a good kid, or a “future leader” that is a good kid, but not simply just a good kid. I know plenty of those that are going to community college or the nearby public state school. I’m not saying that your daughter doesn’t have one of the selling characteristics, but simply because you’re proud of her or because she is an amazing citizen, she won’t get in.</p>
<p>*whoops I forgot, and Money Babies 
lol</p>
<p>charlieschm, the guy stated about 3 times that it was 2007.</p>
<p>Plue: Maybe we are talking about different things: median vs. average, or accepted vs. enrolled.</p>
<p>In any case, I was quoting the median SAT score for accepted students for the class of 2015 at 2070.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Virginia Offers 7,750 Applicants a Place in the Class of 2015](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=14562]University”>http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=14562)</p>
<p>(A buddy of mine wrote that article).</p>
<p>Here’s the quote from the above link</p>
<p>“Of those offered admission, 94.5 percent rank in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating classes, Roberts said. Their median SAT score was 2,070 on a 2,400-point scale, with the middle 50 percent scoring between 1,950 and 2,210. The admission committee also considers extracurricular involvement, essays, recommendations, leadership and citizenship, among many factors, as they evaluate applications.”</p>
<p>In any case, median and averages are not of much value. Most people look at the middle 50% - the top 25% would have gotten in anyway, and the bottom 25% had some special hook at most colleges. I don’t know if UVa reports separate SAT stats for in-state vs. out of state, which would be more helpful.</p>
<p>This is the admitted student stats, not enrolled student stats. </p>
<p>I just want to make sure you understand the numbers you are looking at.</p>