Chances at UVA

<p>Basic Info:
White Male from small town outside of Pittsburgh
Public School. Current Junior. (Don't know if it helps but my school rarely has people apply to top schools, everyone usually goes to University of Pitt).</p>

<p>Rankings:
I'm currently 3/190 but will probably graduate 2nd.
I have 4.1 but my school doesn't offer many AP Classes and Honors classes aren't waited much. I still take the hardest classes my school has to offer and I get all A's with the exception of English which is either a low A or very high B. My GPA will probably go up to a 4.2 senior year.</p>

<p>Classes:
Senior year I will be in:
AP Calc II ... My school actually had to create this class for me and 2 other students.
AP English
Physics II
French III
Accounting
Current Issues</p>

<p>SATs:
My big downfall. I have only taken them once and got 600's across the board with a 10 on the essay. I know I can do better than this and will be taking them at least 2 more times along with the Lit and Math II Subject Tests. I'm aiming for a 1900-2000 min.</p>

<p>Others:
I'm taking Calc I for college credits from University of Pitt and will do the same next year with Calc II. I also applied to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Global Entrepreneurship this summer and am hoping I get accepted.</p>

<p>I'm involved in French Club, TFIM (student career exploration program), Guitar Club (Vice-Pres), school academic competition team, golf team, Boy Scouts, History Club, Junior Engineering Technical Society and I created a stock-market competition to be held at our school for about 15 high schools in the area. Senior year I will be in the NHS. I have also accumulated around 85 service hours.</p>

<p>I'm very confident in my essays and teacher recs.</p>

<p>UVA is my top choice but I know that getting in will be a long shot. The other schools I'm looking at are Boston College, NYU, Villanova and Lehigh.</p>

<p>nyu: match/slight slight slight reach, depending on your SATs</p>

<p>U.Va. will be very difficult--your rank might help you though. NYU is a slight reach assuming you apply to the CAS and not Tisch/Stern. You'll have a good shot at Lehigh as long as you show lots of interest and get a 1300+ for math+verbal on your SATs. The other two schools I don't know much about.</p>

<p>UVa: reach
NYU: match / slight reach</p>

<p>Thanks. What besides my SATs are holding me back? Can an out of state student get in with low SATs or is anything below 1400 a long shot?</p>

<p>bump ........</p>