<p>White Female, currently Junior
Competitive private Catholic High school in New Jersey with a little over 200 students per grade
-top 10% of class
-taken probably hardest academic route
-freshman year- all honors except mandatory religion class
-sophmore-all honors and one ap
-junior year-all honors and one ap
-senior year (expected)- all honors and three ap classes
ap's- us hist. spanish. calculus. euro hist.
<em>these are basically all the ap classes offered at my school</em>
This year my grades have been all in the A range with one B
taking the sat's this spring, psats were a little over 1900 first time sophmore year and about 2000+ junior year which was 94th percentile
unweighted gpa- 3.7-3.8 weighted gpa- 4.4-4.6
EC's
play in band, have played bass since 4th grade
competitive tennis player, have played since very young age, competes
4 year track runner
4 year cross country runner
2 time track captain, 1 time xc captain
member of ski club
waterskiing and snowskiing outside of school
National Honor Society Member</p>
<p>service-
Special Olympics 2 year team volunteer
Volunteer at carnival for people with Special Needs
began chapter of REACH- stop genocide in Darfur at high school
With school club to help underpriviledged kids with schoolwork and provide company
Make blankets and hats and gloves for underprviledged kids with a school club</p>
<p>Expecting great recommendations and solid essays
If all goes well and i keep my grades about the same what do you think that my chances are at getting into UVA?</p>
<p>also adding that i have 2 $1,000 scholarships from sports and a $1,500 scholarship from sports</p>
<p>if everything stays the same, i would say you have a fairly good shot for being OOS. But I'll state the obvious: you're OOS. You need to be in the top 5% really to have a solid, excellent chance, and even then, admission is getting tougher and tougher each year with the GA pressing on state universities to increase IS enrollment.<br>
Keep up the hard work though, you're GPA and rank are the most important thing.</p>
<p>thanks for the input!
it gets frustrating when i realize that just because i am OOS it means so much for an application</p>
<p>lucky, seriously now, do you really think any of these people know what they're talking about? at all? why not just email or call the deans and just ask them yourself? </p>
<p>provide useful links like common data set, historical data, etc, that would help the person find his answer, but best to leave the assumptions up to the adcoms.</p>
<p>couldn't agree more with laughter. </p>
<p>my stats aren't as spectacular as yours on paper (i too am from out of state) and i was accepted to uva. admission to uva is based upon more than just credentials and grades.</p>
<p>my advice for you? </p>
<p>write clever, rather than cliche, essays. essays seem to be especially significant for uva because according to its website it takes a very holistic approach to the decision-making process. for example, don't write about scoring the goal that won the championship, rather write about the ref that always called a fair game and taught you the importance of honesty though it's not always popular. focus on telling the adcom something about you without directly saying it. for example, taking the adcom through your afternoon routine of picking up your siblings, practicing your instrument, finishing up your homework, and walking your dog shows them that you're responsible, dedicated, and that you concentrate on school.</p>