Chances at UVA

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a student in Fairfax County (Junior) and seriously want to go to UVA. I'm trying to apply early decision this fall. What are my chances?</p>

<p>Projected GPA: 3.6 (UW); 3.75 (W)
Projected SAT (new): 2200-2300</p>

<p>Algebra I- B, Spanish- B</p>

<p>Freshman:
Health/PE: A
World Civ. Honors: A
English 9 Honors: A
Biology Honors: A
Spanish 2: A
Forensics/Debate: A
Geometry Honors: B</p>

<p>Here's where things went bad...
Sophmore:
Health/PE: A
Driver's Ed (no credit): A
Alegbra II Honors: C
English 10 Honors: B+
AP World: B+ (4 on AP Test)
CAD (Computer Aided Drafting): B+
Chemistry Honors: B
Spanish 3: B+</p>

<p>Things are going much better...
Junior
AP U.S. History: A
Spanish 4: A
Physics Honors: A
AP English Language & Composition: A
Architectural Drawing: A
Precalculus Honors: A
AP Psychology: A</p>

<p>Projected Senior Courses/Mid Year-Grades (if i work i can do anything)
Senior
AP Biology: A
AP Gov.: A
AP Spanish Lang.: A
AP Literature: A
AP Calculus BC: A
Advanced Drawing: A
Pol. Science: A</p>

<p>EC's
Improv for Debate Team (9th)- went to regionals/districts
English Honor Society (11-12th)- President
History Honor Society (11-12th)- President
Science Honor Society (11-12th)- President</p>

<p>The Philip G. Zimbardo Club (Founder and President)- this club deals with "small" psychological experiments, and is acknowledged and sponsored by past APA (American Psychological Association) President, and current Proffesor at Stanford.</p>

<p>National Honor Society (12th)- member
200 volunteer hours</p>

<p>Awards:
Forensics Exclamatory Speaker award (9th)
President's Award for Academic Excellence (6,9,12- prob.)
Best Student for English- 10th
Best student for history- 10th
Summa Cum Laude Honor Roll- 4 certificates (3.85 and above)
Recieved varsity letter for grades- 9th, and probably 11th (3.85 and above)</p>

<p>I can write a very good essay...should be no problem.
So what are my chances? Will my C from 10th kill me? I'm instate. Will the upward trend help? Lot's of kids from my school want to go to this school...plus i'm from northern virginia...</p>

<p>Opinions?</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, Fairfax County Grades like this (I mention this, because apparently other schools grade differently...)</p>

<p>94-100:A
90-93: B+
84-89: B
80-83: C+
74-79: C
70-73: D+
64-69: D
63-below: F</p>

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<p>Anyone...opinions??</p>

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

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

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<p>you should be fine. one C will not kill you. ED should help a lot. good luck!</p>

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<p>fairfax county..huh
what school do u go to? i go to madison.</p>

<p>nice ec's btw!</p>

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<p>I think your in for ED, GOOD JOB.</p>

<p>The only nice wrap you can do for your application would be to start now on your essays, there a 3 of them, make sure TAKE YOUR TIME, and get them edited and critiqued with ppl who know about great writing (i.e. ppl who majored in creative writing)</p>

<p>I think i ll see you in two years at UVA, lol</p>

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<p>thanks for the opinions</p>

<p>Btw, nilvedxd i''m from Westfield</p>

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<p>I think that you are in the running, especially since you are applying ED.</p>

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<p>You will be very close.</p>

<p>Depends on the UVA GPA cut off for your HS. UVA seems to take everyone above a certain GPA from NOVA and no one under it (minus athletes, urms etc)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the feedback. Last year about 29 kids got into UVA (out of about 400). I am ranked about 21 out of 500. I've also taken the most rigorous schedule out of all my fellow students.</p>

<p>One more question. I consider myself fairly adept at art, though never wished to pursue it in highschool. In middle school, i finished two scholastic award winning pieces (2nd place). I've continued pursuing art at home. Should I send them some samples, or not? I also am taking architecture- should i send any architecture portfolios?</p>

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<p>Oh one more thing, how much does ED really help? My counselor told me I have good chances, and that ED should help me out next year...</p>

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<p>Statistically, applying ED is a lot better than RD because highly selective colleges tend to accept more people under ED than RD. In addition, under ED, the applicant pool tends to be weaker than RD at highly selective colleges. However, when I was reading an article about UVA's acceptances under the ED plan, the dean of admissions at UVA stated that the reason why ED accepts more applicants as opposed to RD is because they accept a lot of people under ED whose stats would have been "acceptable" under RD or something like that.</p>

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<p>thanks. But how about submitting samples of artwork. Will it help (even if I'm not participating in an art elective?)</p>

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<p>well, bump....</p>

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<p>I heard contrary to what Sdma89 posted. I’m pretty sure that colleges only accept the best of the best during ED in most selective schools: the people that the admissions officers are positive would meet up to RD’s stats. Why would they choose a person of a lower or average caliber, before they had the chance to see what the rest of the applicant pool looks like?</p>

<p>Back to the original post…I’d say if you really want to go to U.Va then go ahead and apply ED, the worst that can happen is you’ll be deferred (I highly doubt that a person of your caliber would be rejected ED). And if you were deferred I’m pretty sure with your stats that you could make in RD. This year about 15 kids applied ED to U.Va. All of them had taken AP classes, had 3.6+ GPA, and 1080+ SATs. But the only kid from our school (Northern VA school) that was accepted ED was a guy with a 1580 SAT 4.0 GPA and at least 7 APs.</p>

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<p>^ I also thought that ED was for the "best of the best." The whole point of the program was to draw students that would appeal to other colleges away from them. Therefore, I was puzzled to my counselor's suggestion to apply ED; I didn't understand why it was so beneficial.</p>

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<p>In my school we had 12 ppl get in ED. The Stats of these students were 3.7+ and 1300+ 5AP+(sidenote: everyone was taking nothing less than Calculus BC for a math class)</p>

<p>If UVA is your top choice apply early, i think your in, it helps because then you recieve your letter in late November, instead of April and its smooth sailing for the rest of your (fun) senior year</p>

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<p>NoelB05, actually, I don't mean to be rude, but I think that you are confusing ED with EA. EA is the most competitive applicant pool because the best of the best students tend to apply to highly selective colleges under EA because they can get in, and keep there options open. Then comes RD. RD is less competitive than EA. Lastly, it's ED. ED is less competitive than both RD and EA because a lot of the times, students who know that they don't have a shot under RD and EA, or that there chances under RD and EA are slim, apply early decision; therefore, the quality of ED pools are always going to be weaker than RD and EA. Any college admissions officer, and any college counselor could tell you that. The best of the best applicants tend to apply EA and RD because they won't be bound to a particular college and school. The reasons why colleges accept weaker applicants under ED is because the applicants are saying that they will go to the school if accepted. In other words, the colleges wouldn't be wasting any "seats" because the applicants under ED are giving up their options, and are bound to the college that they apply to under ED.</p>