Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Wake Forest University
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<p>I applied early to UVA, and was deferred. Wake is easily my number one choice, I visited and it felt perfect for me, but due to financial reasons I have been looking in-state at UVA and William and Mary. Hopefully my being deferred will turn out to be better in the end...</p>

<p>White Male
Northern Virginia
Largest Public School in the State (4000+)</p>

<p>IB Diploma
Toughest courseload possible
Total of 13 IB classes by graduation, along with AP govt in 10th grade (4)
Senior Classes
IB Physics II
IB English II
IB Math II
IB Spanish II
IB Topics of the 21st Century (History)
IB Business/Managment
Art I</p>

<p>3.7 W 3.6 UW (3.8 W 3.7 UW if not for B's in 8th grade algebra/spanish)
Besides consistent B's in Spanish, gotten mostly A's with scattered B/B+'s
School does not rank</p>

<p>32 ACT (33 m 33s 31eng 30 rd 11 essay) (I know this doesnt matter here)
2080 SAT (710 m 700 v 670 w)</p>

<p>Decent EC's
Heavy baseball, recruited to play DIII
President of Young Republicans
Coached Little League baseball for 2 seasons
Held job at Country Club since June
NHS, Spanish Honor Society
Numerous awards in science fair (both school and region level) during 10th/11th grades
100's of volunteer hours (Part of IB diploma program)
Other smaller things</p>

<p>Read my recs, one is excellent, the other very good</p>

<p>My UVA essays were the strongest part of my application</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>I am surprised you were deferred at UVA, your stats are very strong. Any idea why? WFU is a good school, I'd say go for it and see what happens.</p>

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<p>You look like a good candidate to me...but I'm not the greatest at judging chances.</p>

<p>Sorry about UVA - the chance of getting admitted even instate is really weird and random...</p>

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<p>The reason I got deferred at UVA is quite simple actually. Over 50 kids from my school applied ED, and a little more than 20 were accepted. Virtually all of the applicants with a 3.9 or above were accepted, with only one or two outliers (urms). Hopefully GPA is not stressed so much at my other choices...</p>

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<p>Sound like a good candidate to me as well. Also, it doesn't matter if you're instate or not (though there are a lot of NCinians at Wake)... the amount you pay is the same. I realize this isn't the case for UVA, though.</p>