Chance me for UVA, Virginia Tech (In-state)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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GPA UW/W: 3.95/4.28 (rank is 58/485)
SAT: 1450
SAT II: 700 Math 2, 750 Lit, 650 US History
APs taken throughout HS: World history(4), US History (4), Lang (5), Calc AB (4), Music theory (4)

Junior year course load: APUSH, AP Lang, AP Calc AB, Free period, Personal finance, Spanish honors 5, conceptual physics, and honors orchestra
Senior year course load: AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish, Free period, environmental science, honors orchestra, cybersecurity

Public Virginia Beach area HS (school offers many APs)
I’m Asian.

ECs: I naturally found myself gravitating towards a few passions:

I founded a company in freshman year and developed a product and an app for it my junior year. I was accepted into a business academy and I’ve won a few regional and national entrepreneurship/pitch competitions. I published a book (not self-published, under an actual big publisher) about my experiences as a young man in entrepreneurship.

I play in a very distinguished youth orchestra (and am the principal flutist of it) and am in their small ensemble program, so I perform at the Kennedy Center in DC a lot. I started a flute studio and teach lessons to kids. I also created a youtube channel where I fuse Indian flute music with pop music and electronic music.

Less important stuff: in Tri-M

These are my dream schools, so I would appreciate if anyone could have some input with any of this. Thank you all so much.

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Just from looking at my DC’s high school’s Naviance for a HS in NOVA, you have a great chance at both! I would guess a definite acceptance at VA Tech and a great chance for UVA. Good Luck!!

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probably man

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UVA must accept 70% instate so good chance! But depends on how many applying from your school if they decide to have a quota for each VA high school

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Just to clarify - UVA does not accept 70% of in state applicants but the enrollment is ~70% in state and 30% OOS.

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Oops that was my mistake the freshman class is 70% instate

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I was pretty sure that was what you meant.

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Thanks for the advice and insight. Good luck to any of you that are in the college admissions process as well.

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Bumping because I wanted some insight about my rank. I’m not in the top 10% of my class (just missed it by a bit!) but took a relatively challenging course load with AP and honors as well as many subject tests. My transcript is okay too, with just one B in freshman year honors math and the rest As. How much will this bite me and does this take me out of the running for UVA?

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It helps to be top 10% of your class. You didn’t mention what you are majoring. Engineering school would be harder to get into than something like Arts and Sciences.

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I want to major in business administration. I feel like the rest of my application is good, but do my grades hurt me a lot in this process?

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Your grades are excellent. Why would they hurt you?

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@lostaccount I was talking about my class rank since I’m not in the top 10%, but my transcript is all As with only one B freshman year, and this is with honors and AP courses. I see a lot on these forums that if you’re not in the top 10%, your chances go down a lot. It’s discouraging since I’ve worked so hard for my grades, but for some reason my rank is lower (maybe because of some A-s…).