HUGE UVa Transfer Dilemma

Transfer Students
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<p>Hello all</p>

<p>I currently go to Northern Virginia Community College and I plan to transfer to uva during fall of 2009 as an incoming junior. Now heres the problem, I wanted to go in under the guaranteed admission agreement that uva has with nvcc, HOWEVER, the English prereqs (111 and 112) I would opt out of if I was admitted into uva. basically, Uva has this policy where if you have an sat score of 720 or higher in the writing section you are exempt from taking 111 and 112. I got a 740 on the writing section, and I also scored a 3 on my ap exam, which would also be an additional opt out for 111. Also, I am required to take one history class at nova to go in under the agreement, however I have Ap scores in two history classes that would give me 11 credits worth of history classes at UVa. Bottom line is, I don't want to take these classes because I will gain no knowledge out of them and it would just be repetitive. However, I talked to the dean of admissions from UVA and she said to go in under the guaranteed agreement I HAVE to take english 111. 112, and a history class even if i opt out of them at uva. My other option is to apply in the regular application pool and not under the guaranteed statement. So in that case, let me post my stats:</p>

<p>College GPA: 3.778 (should be 3.86 by time of application submission)
Credits: 27 (planning to take 19 this semester, so at time of application I should have 46)
EC's: Honors club, PTK, part time jobs, etc
Letters of R's: can easily get glowing ones from several prof's
Essays: Pretty good writer so I should be able to whip something up</p>

<p>o and btw, I am OOS (district of columbia :/)</p>

<p>the admissions dean said I would be very competitive with a 3.8 coming out of community college applying for junior transfer, I just want to make sure I should take the risk of applying in the regular pool and not taking those 3 classes and getting in guaranteed. What would you do in my scenario? stick it out and take the three classes? or take the chance and apply in the regular pool?</p>

<p>PLEASE HELP ME</p>

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<p>bumppppppppp</p>

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<p>If someone offers you a guaranteed way of getting 10k or a ___% chance of getting it if you happen to be competitive for it? Which would you choose?</p>

<p>Would taking these three classes really be that horrible?</p>

<p>Btw, you can do OOS guaranteed transfer programs? Or only because you live in DC?</p>

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<p>Are you kidding???? Take the 3 Classes!!!!!!!!! Next year you will be patting yourself on the back repeatedly as you walk the halls of UVA :)</p>

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<p>yeh thats what I think im gonna do after much thought</p>

<p>also, I was talking to my Dean and apparently UVA has face to face admissions where they go to the nova campus and accept/reject students on the spot...the dean said with my grades and my extra currics its prolly gna be cake for me to get accepted...im still gona take the classes I need for the guaranteed transfer however just to be on the safe side. Has anyone had any experiences with on the spot admissions? how does the process work?</p>

<p>also, to Bourne, you simply need to be a student at any VCCS school to be qualified for the guaranteed transfer, I guess the logic was that there are very few out of state students who would attend a VCCS school and therefore they probably did not deem it necessary to include it in the statement...just my thoughts I'm not 100% sure</p>