<p>I guess I'm used to it. I used to be jealous of my classmates in like middle school when their parents bought them stuff when they brought him good report cards, while my parents would be like "98% what happend to the other two percent?!"</p>
<p>LOL. This is the first time I've seen my mother get excited over something. I burst into her room and started bawling when I got into UCLA. She just sat there, took a sip of her tea, and said "stop crying, you'll frighten your sister" (which I did)</p>
<p>This time, I just calmly told her about UVa and she said "Now it's my turn to get excited!"</p>
<p>Oh, and I never got anything for good report cards either - mainly because she could never read them! (She can only read Arabic)</p>
<p>I got it too-</p>
<p>1520 (800v/720m)
800 Writing
800 World History
770 us History
740 Literature
3.97 gpa (uw)</p>
<p>artist, swimming 22+ hrs/week, semester at a university then a semester studying independently abroad, etc.</p>
<p>The pressure is off. Wahoo wa!</p>
<p>Did any students that were accepted ED find out that they got into the Echols Scholars Program?????????????? or was it just for the RD?</p>
<p>I'm sure the EDers are thrown into the mix....it would be unfair if they weren't. Echols is not just a 'marketing ploy,' so ED/RD shouldn't matter...</p>
<p>i got accepted ED but did not hear anything about Echols....i am hoping it was just for RD</p>
<p>Kebree: First, congrats on getting in! and getting echols!</p>
<pre><code> Second, I think that a higher proportion of Echols offers go to RD people. The Echols program is UVa's effort to grab top students from Ivies and elite LACs, which isn't a problem with ED people. They don't explicitly state that more Echols offers go to RD people, but I think it can be assumed. You can read more on the Echols site...(I forgot the URL).
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<p>Yea I was reading the UVa site (this is a bit random but i found it interesting) and they said that they don't call professors with PhD's doctors because Jefferson didn't have a PhD. There's a little UVa tidbit for you if you didn't already know that.</p>
<p>If you read the Echols Scholars pages on the UVa website, you will find the comforting message that ED admits are also reviewed for Echols, but will not find out until a more delayed schedule of April One-ish. Check it out and good luck! Congrats on getting in.</p>
<p>ah i finally got mine today! :)</p>
<p>1500 (760 M, 740 V)
760 IIC
750 FR
750 WR
4.0 gpa UW
4s/5 AP</p>
<p>in-state, very involved in music 20+ hours/week (+ awards: all-state band, etc.), and harpist (i can't imagine too many applied :))</p>
<p>--this just proves that there's no 1550 cutoff... compared to your guys' stats, i'm surprised i got echols at all though...</p>
<p>today in the mail i got the print version of the link that was in the e-mail
along with a personalized handwritten note from the dean of echols (or his secretary or something, but still handwritten with his initials =P) in response to one of my essays.
i was speechless.</p>
<p>Harpingchic- did you get an email or regular mail? also, did you apply online or w/ paper app?</p>
<p>kellyelly: I'm thinking over the essays I submitted right now and I'm wondering if they were in line with what they were looking for (which yours clearly was). Would you mind private messaging me your essay? If its really personal or something, please feel free to decline, but it would be great to see an example of what they like. Thanks.</p>
<p>I have to agree with 2tired, here, kellyelly. If you don't want to send your essays, could you at least tell us what you wrote about? Pretty please?</p>
<h1>1 I'm trusting that since all of you are (presumably) applying to UVa, you at least have some sense of the honor code, and will keep that in mind when coming up with your own ideas that express your own personalities.</h1>
<h1>2 I wrote this the day before submitting my application and hardly editted; i was going for the idea more than impressive writing skills</h1>
<h1>3 if you're going to do this essay, my advice would be to not start with "my favorite word is ____."</h1>
<p>with that in mind, enjoy! </p>
<p>Math, in its orderliness, is beautiful. Language, in its chaos, is divine. Numbers exist in a world of black and white, while words paint in shades of gray. I am devoted to math because it is centered around true statements, facts. Language fascinates my inner rebel because its semantics are often ambiguous. A statement such as three equals five would be immediately dismissed by a mathematician because it is inherently incorrect, whereas a linguist can find meaning in a statement such as this sentence is false, which is equally inherently incorrect.
Great writers, thinkers, and poets have developed the paradox into somewhat of an anomaly. Emily Dickinson wrote that much madness is the divinest sense, and philosophers have attempted to explore the nuances of the statement this sentence is false. A paradox involves an innate contradiction, however both sides of the conflict are true. A paradox of physics would cause a great disturbance two particles would have to occupy the same exact location in space at the same exact moment in time. While a paradox of science is practically impossible to construct or even imagine, a paradox of language is simple and easy to compose. All that is required is an unusual circumstance and words with opposite definitions.
Paradox is my favorite word because it represents what is impossible. I am a generally analytic and scientifically oriented thinker, and therefore a realm of thought where anomalies exist both awes and intrigues me.</p>
<p>What about e-mails for Rodman kids? I got the likely letter, but I applied for engineering, so I'm not sure if the Echols e-mail really applies to me.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>kellyelly- I am in awe. That was beautiful. :)</p>
<p>kellyelly, very nice essay.</p>
<p>I have also been accepted as an Echols Scholar. Waiting to hear from the Ivies before I decide what to do.</p>
<p>FYI, rodmans havent been informed yet. not all echols are out yet- i think they'll all be sent by april 1, but nobody (not even jeffs) who have applied to the engineering school have heard back from the rodman.</p>
<p>E-mail from the Rodman Scholars program just came today.</p>
<p>Joey</p>