Chances for UVA please :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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Rank: 17/421
GPA: 4.4 weighted, 3.85 unweighted (my school does +0.5 for honors classes and a +1.0 in AP’s and averages them)
4.0 = A, 3.7 A-, 3.3 B+ and so forth

New SAT: CR-750, M-740, Essay-20/24
ACT: 34

EC’s:

  • Math Honors Society
  • Spanish Honors Society
  • Debate Team Secretary
  • Model UN Historian (won Outstanding delegate at high school conferences, Honorable mention at a college conference)
  • Secretary of my schools debate team, attended numerous competitions
  • Member of my school’s student congress (representing my school at school board meetings)
  • Volunteer at Bon Secours Hospitals (~150 hrs)
  • Volunteered at a Boston STEM workshop for underprivileged kids (~80 hrs)
  • Fluent (and literate) in five languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, Sanksrit
  • Varsity track and field (JV freshman and sophomore year, varsity junior and senior year)
  • DERI (Deans Early Research Initiative) Fellow 2015-16: Performed research with a doctor and PhD student at VCU and
    assisted them in writing their paper
  • Been playing the guitar for about 8 years, just a hobby
  • Worked (paid) at a local Kumon for about a year
  • Have given speeches at many cultural (Hindu) events

Student in a Math and Science Specialty Center
Taken 6 AP’s: AP Bio (5), AP Comp. Sci (3), AP Chemistry (4), AP Calculus AB (5), AP Physics (3), AP English Lang. (5)
Mostly A’s, some A-'s, 2 B+'s
SAT II: 730 Math II, 780 Bio, 730 Chem. Only sending Bio.

Senior year courseload (predicted first sem. grades in parentheses)
AP Psychology (A)
AP Calculus BC (A-/B+)
AP Spanish Language and Culture (A)
AP Statistics (A-/B+)
AP English Lit. (A/A-)
Honors Anatomy and Physiology (A/A-)
AP Physics (A/A-)

CommonApp Essay: Wrote about how a cultural ritual was my transition from childhood to adulthood. Got it edited by my English teacher, would rate 7.5-8/10

Supplementals: Both edited pretty well, 8/10 average between both

I’m an Indian (with a British citizenship) living in Virginia, applied EA to UVA’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

How am I looking?

P.S. I’m also applying RD to Northwestern, Duke, Vandy, Georgia Tech., UMich Ann Arbor, Johns Hopkins, UPitt, University of Washington (Seattle), Rice, and Carnegie Mellon. Feel free to just one-word chance me on those too, if you want to.

Any feedback is much appreciated, thank you so much!

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Sorry guys, forgot to mention:
AP Scholar with Distinction, received a Nation Merit Commendation for a 1440 (/1520) on my PSAT

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Just saw the post about not starting “chances” threads in the UVA group. Terribly sorry for doing that; I thought I made sure to put it in the “What are my Chances?” discussion but I guess not. Again, I apologize for this.

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Does your school have Naviance? If so, it would be extremely helpful to see based on past people’s stats and how they compare to yours whether you’ll get accepted or not. At my NoVa school, you would most certainly get accepted, as a top 5% combo, 33+ test score leads to an almost sure guarantee. As long as your essays aren’t awful, I would be fairly confident if I was you!

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My school doesn’t have Naviance, but thank you so much! I’m nervous haha, but I shouldn’t think about it much since I’ve already submitted.

Also, for EC’s, I see people listing a lot of stuff, with huge descriptions. Where is the space to do all this? The Common App really doesn’t allow for much detail when it comes to EC’s.