<p>Echols/Rodman? When will we find out?</p>
<p>I just received an email! I’m an Echols scholar!! Yay!</p>
<p>Now it’s going to be even harder to choose…</p>
<p>Congratulations, Senorita! </p>
<p>The scholars emails all went out last night. I’ll post an update on my blog shortly.</p>
<p>Remember that you can apply to join them after the first semester if you are interested in one of those programs.</p>
<p>Where do first year Echols scholars live these days given the alderman road dorm construction?</p>
<p>Thank you so much, Dean J! Your blog was a wonderful help throughout this process. </p>
<p>I’m thrilled to be chosen; to be honest I didn’t even think that I would be ACCEPTED to such an amazing university, much less become an Echols scholar. Perhaps I was too hard on myself!</p>
<p>I now have the (not at all unwelcome) problem of choosing between 3 amazing schools(and possibly more to come next week). I’m just so grateful to everyone!</p>
<p>Me too!!! Ahhhhh so excited!! Senorita you should choose UVA!!!</p>
<p>Echols Scholars live in new dorms- Watson Webb and Balz Dobie. Got to tour them last week at Days on the Lawn- very nice!</p>
<p>I just found out that I am an Echols Scholar 
I was just wondering if I would still be allowed to take courses at McIntire since I was planning to major in Business if I am an Echols Scholar?</p>
<p>Hey chocolatecookies - congratulations! I’m a Rodman, so a lot of my good friends from first year are Echols scholars, and many of them have gone on to become COMM schoolers. As an Echols, you’re free from the distribution requirements that other CLAS students have, so I know a lot of my friends used that extra bit of wiggle room to make more time for the COMM pre-requisites.</p>
<p>sarahcarolina54- I really want to!!! It’s all going to come down to money. I’m out of state, so I don’t know what kind of aid I’ll be getting. I’m crossing my fingers! (And toes, and legs, and eyes…)</p>
<p>Good luck! You must be incredible to get in as an OOSer.</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying it h00ray :)</p>
<p>Unfortunately if you are accepted to McIntire you will lose your Echols status, since it’s purely a CLAS thing. Don’t let that deter you from the comm school though; it’s one of the best programs in the nation if that’s what you want to do.</p>
<p>My son has been accepted as a Rodman Scholar. He is OOS from W.Va. I understand that Rodman scholars get special scholar housing. This is important to me–his father–because I consider U.Va. too big. </p>
<p>How do we make sure he gets into the Rodman/Echols dorms?</p>
<p>Do they fill up fast?</p>
<p>Can anybody offer an opinion about these dorms? </p>
<p>Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>i am a first year living in echols/rodman housing now! all echols and rodman scholars are essentially required to live in the dorm, unless you have a legitimate reason not to. so there should be no worry about ‘getting into’ the dorm–he should be automatically placed there. </p>
<p>i have absolutely loved my experience in my dorm. the dorms were brand new this year and are beautiful–everyone else on campus is jealous of them and call them ‘hotels’. i was hesitant at first about living in them because i wanted to live in IRC, but now i am completely happy here! </p>
<p>also, congrats to your son on rodman!</p>
<p>Yes, you automatically get placed into Scholars housing if you are an Echols or Rodman Scholar.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry too much about the school being too big especially if you are a Rodman Scholar. There are only 30 or so Rodman Scholars per class which makes them a very close knit group. I have heard personally from many of my Rodman Scholar friends that this program brings a small college feel to a large university.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son.</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing it up @WaitingForGodot.</p>
<p>@h00ray (or anyone else who attends/attended UVa), do the majority of echol scholars who apply to McIntire get in??</p>
<p>Even though UVA is a larger campus, it feels very small. My son is a freshman Rodman from far away out of state and we love the school. He will live in the Rodman dorm which is extremely nice. In all the tours, I never saw a nicer dorm anywhere! Also, the Rodman program is small and they will get to know others in it. The engineering school is essentially a small school within the university. All of my son’s classes are in or near the engineering school. The professors are very nice and frequently email students. His current Calc teacher emails to all students whenever someone comes to his office to ask a question because he assumes others have the same questions. My son was sick for a week during first semester, and instructors worked with him to help him catch up on his work. I do not think we could have picked a more perfect school for my son. Good luck with your decision!!</p>
<p>Thanks to everybody for responding.</p>
<p>I am learning that as a Rodman scholar my son automatically has a place in these very nice honors dorms. That is excellent.</p>
<p>I have also been reading that fraternities and sororities are prominent at U.Va. My son could not be a frat boy if he tried. He is, otherwise, a social person. Do Rodman scholars join fraternities? or do they make up a sort of fraternity by being a tight-knit group?</p>
<p>Also, do Rodman and Echols scholars mix or are they separate?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>About 30% of UVa students belong to a Greek org. There are many happy students who make similar commitments to other activities (some of the Cavalier Daily staff seems to sleep in that office!). Plenty of students who are members of Greek orgs are involved significantly in other ways, too.</p>
<p>Being a Rodman Scholar wouldn’t prompt or prevent membership in a Greek org. There are some Greek orgs that are specific to the engineering school. See: [U.Va</a>. Engineering Student Organizations](<a href=“http://www.seas.virginia.edu/students/]U.Va”>http://www.seas.virginia.edu/students/)</p>