Last thoughts on my Chances!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Please chance me: Any help would be great </p>

<p>Very Very nervous. please be honest. </p>

<p>ACT: 30
Best Single Sitting: SAT: 1280/1930
Best Superscored: SAT: 1290/1940
SAT II: World: 640, Lit:600</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.94 </p>

<p>Will have taken 7 AP's by the time I graduate: </p>

<p>AP US GOV: 4 </p>

<p>AP LANG: 4</p>

<p>AP World: 5 </p>

<p>3 years on football team. (1 as JV starter) (1 as varsity starter) (Co-Captain)</p>

<p>Debate team for 4 years...one as treasurer and 2 as captian</p>

<p>Member of honors academy at my school, with a focus in Social Studies</p>

<p>3 years on school's paper...one year as Business Manager and one as the observations Editor</p>

<p>Internship over the summer (after sophomore year) at our county executive's office (wrote a great rec) </p>

<p>Internship this past summmer working with a political group. </p>

<p>I intend to major in public policy or political science (Would love to be an political strategist) </p>

<p>I also have great recomendaitons and wrote very good essays.</p>

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<p>are u instate?</p>

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<p>o i thought I posted. </p>

<p>I am an Out of State Legacy applicant.</p>

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<p>i don’t think that i can actually “help” you, but, judging by your statistics, you seem right within range for a UVa admit! Of course, as an out of state applicant, it’s much, much harder to say. only about 1 in 5 UVa out of state applicants get in, so competition is fierce. if you come form a heavily represented state like Maryland or North Carolina, then your chances are probably even lower. Applying from North Dakota on the other hand… well it reverses the situation.</p>

<p>i think you’ll probably get in. you extracurrics sound strong, and you know what you want to do. percentages don’t mean much, but i’d peg you at about 60 percent without knowing your ethnicity or state of origin.</p>

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<p>Actually while the amount of north Carolina applicants is higher than other other states I’m pretty sure they take more because they like to steal students from Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest and NC State. Not my words but the words of somebody within UVA who will not be named.</p>

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<p>thank you. i am from maryland, so i know that hurts me. But i hope that the legacy will help!</p>

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<p>it actually doesn’t hurt you to be from maryland as opposed to north dakota. Dean J has said multiple times that they don’t read based on region/state/school etc. The only restriction is the in-state:OOS ratio (in-state ~67%) set by the state legislature.</p>

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<p>thank you!</p>

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<p>bump!!!</p>

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<p>one more time please!</p>

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<p>Don’t Fear the Turtle because that is where you are more likely to end up. I was rejected with numbers etc… comparable to yours and went to an “inferior” school and then went to grad school at UVa. You will be fine wheever you end up as long as you embrace it and challenge yourself.</p>

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<p>Writing with a little more experience than I’d care to have – judging by what you’ve posted you’re going to do fine anywhere.</p>

<p>It’s a bit amusing to read about a supercharged individual who goes on to great things after a degree at College X, and College X takes credit for “molding” the individual. It’s a mutual process. If the college can take credit for making you great, never forget that it’s you, and others like you, that make the college great.</p>

<p>Go on to do what you’re so obviously capable of doing, and your choice of college will never matter.</p>

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<p>thank you.</p>