<p>Caucasian Jewish Male from New York
ACT: 33
SAT2: 700 Math 1, 720 USH, 730 Biology
PSAT: 201 (NMSQ Rec)
GPA: 3.935 unweighted, 4.200 Weighted
Schedule: After completing senior year, I will have had taken 8 AP classes (Euro 4, US 4, Biology 5, Comp 4, Physics B, Calc BC, Literature and Spanish)</p>
<p>EC: Varsity Soccer for 2 Years
Tutoring at for 4 years
Various Fundraising and Charitable Events (Volunteering at Lymphoma Drive, Tourettes Event 2x, Autism Event 3x, Volunteering at Hospital
Many more just don't feel like posting
Clubs: In Varsity Club 4 years, Jr. Scope (Grade Rep/Treasurer) 4 years, Editor for School Newspaper, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society</p>
<p>Test scores meh, weighted meh. Unweighted gpa is good…</p>
<p>No particularly outstanding EC’s… this is bad. You want quality, not quantity.</p>
<p>8 AP classes is probably average, but its a shame you didn’t get all 5s… in fact… you only got one. So you probably want to avoid talking about your scores at all.</p>
<p>Your race/state don’t help you much either.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you, hope that your essays+recs are phenomenal. It’s a reach for you, at best…</p>
<p>Don’t listen to Euroazn, you have as good of a chance as anyone else. In fact I think you have a great chance. Just get great recs and write killer essays</p>
<p>If you tried to get into UNC (Chapel Hill) with these grades, everyone would say “Sorry, no way, your grades are just not good enough!” … </p>
<p>So, why should UVA (notably the #2 Public College in the nation) take you then? Only because UVA accepts more oos than UNC - now THAT is a weak reason, don’t you think? Again, we’re talking about one of the top-colleges (public) in the nation … </p>
<p>I think you have a chance, but I guess this would be fair at best. I’m quite sure that UVA will have hundreds/thousands of applicants with a very similar profile. Try to get your scores up and do your best to write ‘killer’ essays.</p>
<p>eml2505 is wrong. U-Va is a good choice for you. You have as good a chance as any, and certainly not getting all 5s on your APs will make zero difference.</p>
<p>“try to get your scores up”
A 33 is a great score. It’s very very hard to increase even a point higher than that score. You have a great shot, just don’t write a MC essay.</p>
<p>Lol, we have this discussion in relgion class all the time.
My teacher refers to god as “it” “he” “she”. No one knows what god is but they all refer to it as “he”. Man steroetypes are so so powerful it’s really crazy.</p>
<p>Referring to the “hypothetical situation” of UNC does nothing to “help explain his argument” because no matter how highly it’s ranks U-Va still accepts twice as many out-of-state students as UNC. What matters is the competition, not the rankings. Having said that, theman44 is also a perfectly solid candidate for UNC as well.</p>
<p>Eml2505…You’ve overlooked a big component in your OOS comparison – the number of OOS applications each school receives. My D was an OOS applicant at both and was accepted at both. Many of her friends were accepted at UNC but not UVa. In her circle, no one was accepted at UVa and rejected at UNC. Both are great schools; however, even though UVa has 28% of it’s student body from OOS (vs. UNC’s 16%) I believe UVa receives more applications from OOS applicants making it as, if not more, competitive. (Both schools have a total acceptance rate around 31%. UVa’ OOS acceptance rate is around 22% I believe – maybe Dean J can verify this stat. UNC’s OOS acceptance rate is around 21%. The difference us marginal.)</p>
<p>ok - I feel like adding another two cents … :-)</p>
<p>oh - and yes, I actually AM male … LOL</p>
<p>@ jz40: no, I haven’t overlooked this component. All I wanted to point out with my post is that, despite the ok-good grades/scores of ‘theman44’, I don’t think he (I think he is male, too) can be sure of getting accepted. </p>
<p>In my opinion, people underestimate the competition in UVA acceptance (particularly for oos), and all I wanted to do is point out this fact! </p>
<p>I thought the comparison with UNC (it’s known all over CC that it’s almost as tough to get into UNC as OOS as it is to get into the Iveys) would help pointing this out, but evidently it confused some - my apologies for that :-)</p>