Hey everyone,
I’ll be applying to UVA early action from Cincinnati, OH this fall and I’m freaking out on whether or not I have a good chance at acceptance as its my top choice by a longshot. If someone could comment and let me know what they think that would be awesome.
I’m currently ranked 2nd in my class of about 380 with a 5.0ish GPA on a 4.0 scale. Our school offers the IB program and I am one of 5 IB Diploma Candidates in our school. My AP/IB classes I’ve taken/are taking are AP World History (3), IB Math SL (6), IB Physics SL (not good), IB History of the Americas HL, IB English HL, IB IB Biology HL, IB Spanish SL, IB Theory of Knowledge SL, and AP Calc AB. I’m also in the school band at our school and have been in the top band since freshman year, as well as a year of jazz band freshman year before my schedule was too full to fit it in. I also played in the pit orchestra for school plays my freshman and junior year. I have a 33 ACT (35E, 35M, 29R, 33S, 11 Essay), and have only taken my math 1 subject test which I got a 700 on and will be retaking as well as taking literature and possibly math 2 in two weeks. I’ve played a ton of sports (varsity swimming freshman and sophomore year but ended with a torn ACL and quit, JV soccer sophomore and junior year and varsity senior year, varsity chess team sophomore junior and senior year, varsity tennis junior and I’m assuming senior year). Involved in extracurriculars: student council representative freshman through junior year, senior student council president, member of national honor society and national Spanish honor society, founder and member of philosophy club, mock trial my senior year. I volunteer at a pharmacy in a hospital which I have about 75 hours as well as a volunteer tutor through NHS, which I have about 20 hours, and a member of a community service group at my school called Vikings which we assist in school events, which I will have around 50 hours by the end of the year. I won the Cincinnati Book Award from The University of Notre Dame as well as the Bausch and Lomb Science Award given by the university of Rochester. I’m a middle class Caucasian male. My letters of Rec should be good, more so from my counselor than my teachers, but regardless still good. And I think that’s about it!
Thanks so much if you can respond!
You sound like their perfect student. Hopefully, I’ll see you there next year.