<p>Well UVA is definetly my first choice right now and I'm thinking about applying Early Action (would this benefit me by the way?) and am concerned that I do not exactly stand out enough as an applicant being from out of state. My stats are:</p>
<p>SAT I (only test, will take again): 780 M 700 CR 730 W</p>
<p>SAT II: US History 750, will also take MathIIC</p>
<p>GPA: 4.21 weighted</p>
<p>Classes: Taking maximum number of APs and honors classes my school allows</p>
<p>ECs: Varsity Football
Sophomore Class Vice-President
Senior Class President
Research Internship at Cleveland Clinic
One week trip to Haiti doing relief work (building hospitals and general stuff)
Peer Tutoring (Coordinator for next year)
NHS
National Merit Semi-finalist
Various awards for Math and Classical Languages</p>
<p>If you want any more information feel free to ask any questions.</p>
<p>Your test scores are good enough and your EC's probably are, too. What's your unweighted GPA? What's your rank? Your weighted GPA tells me nothing.</p>
<p>Applying early decision (UVA doesn't have EA) would help you, especially as an OOS applicant. If UVA is your clear top choice, I'd go for it.</p>
<p>My unweighted GPA is a 4.04.</p>
<p>We don't do class rank but I'm in the top 10% that's all I know.</p>
<p>how can your unweighted GPA be above a 4.0?</p>
<p>If my school gives a 4.3 for an A+? Is there some other conversion I'm not aware of?</p>
<p>Many schools either don't give +/-'s or count A+'s as A's when calculating GPA.</p>
<p>I'd say you have a pretty good shot, but it's hard to tell without knowing your exact rank.</p>
<p>I would make a rough estimate of somewhere between 15-20 out of a 375 person class.</p>
<p>You're probably going to be a very competitive OOS applicant, then. I have a feeling that applying ED will help you more than an instater since the OOS yield rate is so low, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>cav if the out of state yeild rate is so low, how does UVA compensate for the balance of instate/out of state admissions?</p>
<p>They admit a number that will yield the desired percentage of OOS students in the class. If the yield on OOS students were higher, the acceptance rate for OOS applicants would be even lower.</p>
<p>oh okay. what if the oos yield is lower though, then what?</p>
<p>Then they admit more people. Yield management is something that every admissions office in the country deals with.</p>
<p>The in-state yield is around 70%. The out-of-state yield is around 30%. (The overall yield is somewhere between 52-54%.) If only 30% of out-of-state students choose to come to UVa out of the total number accepted, UVa has to accept more OOS students in order to have its 65/35% in-state/out-of-state ratio.</p>