<p>I just have one thing to say about all the comparing of people's GPAs and grades and stats. Did you guys ever stop to think that you might not have been accepted because UVA doesn't want a bunch of carbon copies? I mean, if there's a bunch of 4.0+ students with uber amounts of extra. and AP classes, they're all going to look the same. I'm not saying I'm a slacker, but I didn't get awesome SATs and I don't have huge amounts of extra stuff (My GPA is somewhere around 3.9, maybe a little higher).
I'm not saying that some of you that got deferred weren't qualified, it's just, how can you expect to stand out based on grades alone when there are so many people just as qualified? You can't demand that you should be admitted without proving to the admissions officers that you are different from the others who may be just as qualified.
UVA wants diversity as much as any school, race as well as grade (it seems). They desire personality as much as they want a good GPA. Don't blame the school because you didn't get admitted (as hard as it is), it's not their fault that your applications/resume wasn't to a certain level that they wanted. I mean, of course they set the standards, but you have some of the responsibility too.
Something I told myself before I found out the decision was that whether or not I was admitted to the school did not define who I was. I was determined that if I didn't get in, that I wouldn't let me down. Colleges know what they're doing, and chances are, if you weren't admitted, they think you would do better somewhere else. It's no reflection on your character. I was admitted, which, I'm not going to lie, was one of the best moments in my life; but not the best.
If you got deferred, do what the dean said to do: push for it. Send in whatever you can think of to help you get in. When you're deferred they want to see more information so they make an educated decision.
Don't let denial or deferral rule your life. And if you were admitted, be gracious about it; you did something right. It's easy to overanalysis both sides of the situations, but take it for what it's worth and grow from it. It's not the end of the world, I promise.</p>
<p>MJ</p>
<p>PS. I did not mean this to offend anyone or to say that someone deserves to get in more than someone else, but you shouldn't make decisions of who should or shouldn't get in based on your opinions and your point of view. I'm not saying that someone with a 3.3 should've been admitted or not, but I myself have been recently accused of getting into UVA due to my ethnicity (I'm hispanic). It's not right to take out your frustration on someone else (like, you know the saying: Misery enjoys company). Being hispanic might have given me a little more favor over someone else, but it didn't get me inside the doors, that was my job to do.</p>
<p>Thanks, and have a good day!</p>