<p>Agreed UVADAD81. You can have every base covered pretty well and not get into UVA. At my daughter’s school, excluding her own situation, my daughter thought that several of the UVA admits were weaker than the the kids wait listed. </p>
<p>But…all of the kids admitted (and all of the waitlisted kids too) to UVA were top 5% of the class. Sure, there are going to be exceptions to every rule, but I don’t think there is a scenario where UVA is going to overlook a mediocre transcript and class rank because of perfect SAT scores.</p>
<p>For reasons mentioned prior, I think just the opposite would be the likely be true.</p>
<p>And my daughter did take the national exam, but she had some caculator related problems and only completed about 85% of the test. She should have read the rules before she went, because it said no programmable calculators were allowed, so she found out she couldn’t use hers when she showed up. Threw her off her game.</p>
<p>Not to say she would have made the top 150 even without that happening, maybe she wouldn’t have. She hasn’t had quite the level of instruction in rural Central Virginia that kids in northern Virginia enjoy. She’s still done pretty well though.</p>
<p>She did not. She’ll be attending University of Mary Washington and she is very excited about what she has seen there. </p>
<p>I think I probably ruined her chance to get off the wait list myself by writing the Richmond Times Dispatch, Riley Ingram, Randy Forbes (all who responded by the way), and just generally being a pain in the rear for UVA. Dean J even barred me from her blog lol.</p>
<p>My daughter assured me several weeks ago that if she did come off the wait list, she would still stick with UMW though, so that made me feel better.</p>
<p>I am an OOS student that was accepted this spring. In my anxiety I researched a lot. I saw a trend of students with very high SAT scores being rejected due to bad grades. A 3.8 unweighted seemed to be close to the tipping point. GPA seems to mean quite a bit and rightfully so. SAT has been shown to hardly correlate with college success (I can get numbers if desired).</p>
That may be very true at your school. You can not compare GPA from one district/region/county/state to another due to different grading scales, weighting, availability and restrictions on APs, etc.</p>
<p>I was actually the only one to apply from my school ever. And I had a higher GPA than that so I am not using my school at all for data. But by looking through past Results threads (especially the last few years) there is certainly a trend to be seen. Obviously kids with higher are rejected and lower are accepted depending on those factors mentioned above but the average seemed to be right about there.</p>
<p>Because the poster said UW, your points about weighting, availability, and APs etc are moot. The only one that is applicable is the grading scale difference, and I would say that one is pretty minimal. </p>
<p>Judging by my Ds friends, I would say a 3.8 UW cutoff probably isn’t too far from the average (+/- maybe .1)</p>
<p>I do know that the weighted GPA cutoff was just over a 4.0, where honors are worth nothing extra and APs are worth a half point.</p>
<p>@VADAD1, I’ve seen your posts on the UVA page. I just wanted to say that UMW is very lucky to have a student like your daughter as part of its incoming class.</p>