Is UVA Right For Me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<li>have an 1840 (SAT Math:640 CR:600 Writing:600 , hoping to get it to at least 2000)</li>
<li>play 3 sports, 2 are varsity, and I am a team captain for one of them</li>
<li>chosen to present a project of mine in front of the Board of Education</li>
<li>provide free school and SAT tutoring to those who need it in my school</li>
<li>involved in a club</li>
<li>3.8 GPA unweighted</li>
<li>Volunteer in a soup kitchen every week</li>
<li>single parent home</li>
<li>low income</li>
<li>first generation college student</li>
<li>top 10% in my class</li>
<li>pretty high performing school in NJ (in top 1000 of all high schools in country)</li>
<li>and I'm black (just throwing that in there)
what are my chances of getting into UVA?</li>
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<p>From NJ? Not very good.</p>

<p>But that’s OK, IMO, because the answer to the question in your thread title is that I haven’t seen anything in your bio here to suggest that U.Va. is a good fit for you otherwise. Maybe the place has changed since I left Charlottesville in the early '90s, but my impression then was that there was a really good reason why U.Va. got stereotyped as a school for rich, preppy, (mostly) white kids.</p>

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<p>S goes to UVA. They have a lot of diversity from what I see when we visit. S loves it. Are u a senior? If not get your sat up some and you will be in the ballpark to apply. Try the act too if you have upper level math skills</p>

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<p>… ehh… Sikorsky, UVa has changed a little bit… now it is full of international, Indian-American, and Korean-American students. Also, because UVa offers excellent need based financial aid to out of state US students, the out of staters are more diverse than they are at most public universities with expensive out of state tuition.</p>

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<p>I’m pleased to hear it. When I was a grad student there, it really needed some diversification. Among the undergraduates, particularly, it seemed as if “diversity” meant “white people from Richmond and white people from Falls Church.”</p>

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<p>To Charlie’s point, it appears that the growth at UVA has been in the Asian-American, Hispanic, and Int’l populations. Surprisingly, the number of African-Americans peaked in 1991, and has since dropped by about 24%. The number of white students actually increased about 2% during that same period. So, I think UVA has become more diverse, even though it’s seems to be at the expense of African Americans. The change may reflect the overall change in America as well as UVA’s focus on students in the Top 10% of their class.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/hist/enroll/year_by_race.htm#undr[/url]”>https://www.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/hist/enroll/year_by_race.htm#undr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The Commonwealth of Va. has seen a huge increase in the number of residents from South Asian, East Asian and Central American countries. Many of the South Asian and East Asian residents have arrived with much more high level education in their family background, so they are currently over-represented in UVa’s population. Eventually, the Central American population will become more prevalent as they get more education.</p>

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<p>The NYT has an editorial that is related to this topic. Perhaps UVA is moving a away (a bit )from a largely race-based definition of diversity to a more nuanced definition that incorporates socio-economic class, as well as “culture” in a more holistic sense (vs race). </p>

<p><a href=“Opinion | Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions - The New York Times”>Opinion | Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions - The New York Times;