<p>FWIW – Deep Run was more highly ranked, #284 nationally, and 14th in VA (1 - 13 were all in Northern VA/DC suburbs). Godwin came in at #662 nationally and 25th in VA.</p>
<p>By comparison, Sumner Academy in KC, KS was ranked at #69 nationally, which I am guessing is your current HS based on your prior posts. If that is correct, given that it is a highly-ranked magnet school, that might boost your application somewhat. No prediction on CC is worth a whole lot, because none of us have all your information, nor are most of us admissions officers. So, take every thing said with a grain of salt. That said, most posting are trying to be helpful; are drawing on information they have, albeit often anecdotal; in an effort to help prospective students avoid situations such as VADAD’s daughter’s initial college results. </p>
<p>The college application process continues to be highly competitive, and except at large state U’s who’s application process is highly formulaic, it will continue to be unpredictable.</p>
<p>And, I know, I am using an animate object pronoun for an inanimate object. Spelling I try to be a stickler on, old grammar conventions, not so much ; )</p>
<p>UVa professes that they strive to use the same evaluation criteria for early action and regular decision, so there should be no admission advantage to applying early. Of course, it can make your senior year less stressful to get your applications in early.</p>
<p>Since early action is non-binding, most colleges offering EA do not limit the number of other schools you may apply to. There are some notable exceptions such as Stanford and Yale, though. Harvard and some others may also impose a limit. I have also heard of at least one, top prep school that will not prepare more than one set of admission materials for its students during the early action/decision round.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. With this only the second year of EA at UVa, there may be fewer applicants in the EA pool (there were last year). But, as applicants and HS counselors become more familiar, those numbers may increase, especially IS. </p>
<p>It is not as if UVa has a set number they need to admit EA, regardless of the number or quality of the applicants.</p>
<p>Apply EA if: 1.) your GPA and test scores are as good as you think you can get them; 2.) you have the time to put in your best effort on the required essays; and 3.) you have the time to line up the best recommendations you can.</p>
<p>In other words, if you can put in just as strong an application early as in January, why not get the application in and out of the way. If you think your first semester grades will help your application, you can raise your SAT/ACT scores, then wait, or you don’t have adequate time to work on the essays, wait.</p>
<p>EA applicants receive one of three decisions – admit, defer to the regular pool, and deny. Just know that a lot of students were deferred this past year, probably because the EA process was new and the admissions office had little hard data on EA yield. They will have at least some data on that now, and that could influence how many they defer. Time will tell.</p>
<p>If you unpack the stats from this past cycle, the offer rates were significantly higher in the EA round than in the RD round. Especially if you take into account that several thousand EA applications were deferred, which meant they went into (and therefore increased the size of) the RD pool.</p>
<p>UVA says that (i) they use the exact same criteria for EA and RD applications and (ii) the EA pool was significantly stronger than the RD pool during this past cycle.</p>
<p>While I think that explanation is plausible, I’d apply EA unless you think your application will look significantly stronger at a later date.</p>
<p>northwesty – not sure what data you are looking at to draw the conclusions above. I’d recommend the OP review Dean J’s blog, particularly her posts on 1/20/12 (EA decision date) and 3/27/12 RD decision date. Since there seems to be a question among CC commenters on OP’s status – IS or OSS, I’d recommend the OP to look at stats for both applicant pools. </p>
<p>It does appear that IS, the admission rate was higher EA. That seems logical to me because I would expect the strongest VA students would have been knowledgeable about the EA option and would have pursued it. My view is bolstered by the higher figure EA for admitees in top 10%, also. (But, note, OP is not currently in the top 10% of her class.)</p>
<p>OOS, the RD admission rate must have been higher.</p>
<p>youre gpa is kinda low, but other than that it looks good. im instate too and like 10 people get accepted to uva each year from my school and im pretty sure a lot of them have worse stats than you.</p>