<p>Nope, except tomorrow for the Brown interview.</p>
<p>Lame. Are they gonna come live in the dorm with you when you go to college to make sure that you go to bed by 8pm every night?</p>
<p>This makes me appreciate my parents more.</p>
<p>haha. </p>
<p>I deserve to be grounded because I did something really bad so many times that just made my parents angry. I was just out of control. They had no choice but to ground me; they tried to talk to me or just let me go or warned me many times, but they didn't work. They told me that they tried to treat me like an adult, but since I'm still acting like a kid, I'm being treated like a kid.</p>
<p>I see. Did you forget to turn off the TV? Or turn out the light to the bathroom? That'll get ya.</p>
<p>Lol, but no. It's more like breaking a few laws. :(</p>
<p>Ouch. Don't let UVA find out! </p>
<p>(and if you come here, don't do it again!)</p>
<p>Yeah, but I'm relieved that I wasn't arrested or charged with criminal offenses. This is a really bad year for me. I hope I will be changed and stop breaking the rules before I go to college.</p>
<p>hey guys you are all cool and lovely bunch.</p>
<p>also, I have a lot of things to do (like manage businesses)... Will I have time to do that at UVa?</p>
<p>I know I'm there to learn, but making money is also important.</p>
<p>Yea, you'll have plenty of free time. You have plenty of time at any college, unless you're going to MIT, Chicago, or even somewhere like the USNA.</p>
<p>so taking you're a current student... how much homework do you have a night?</p>
<p>also, how much work is involved carrying a near 4.0?</p>
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<li><p>My nightly load of work varies. Some nights I do stuff, some nights I don't. I guess it just depends on how I schedule my time. I'm pretty lazy, so most of the time I end up doing assignments the night before they're due. The difficulty of assignments will depend on the class.</p></li>
<li><p>Dude, get out of high school mode. A 4.0 is not necessary for anything in college. High GPA? Yes. 4.0? No. There are a lot of other important things to learn/work on, not all of which are academic. The ease of getting a high (3.7+) GPA depends on course selection, pacing, how much work you do, and, of course, how capable you are. Taking 18 credits of premed classes in one semester will probably kill you. Mixing them in with requirements for an art history degree over the course of four years would be much, much easier. </p></li>
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<p>Grade Point Average is by no means an absolute measure. It is very, very relative. The vast majority of students at UVA were top 10% in high school and had 3.7+, but the average GPA at UVA is right around 3.0. While you may need a 3.9+ to have a shot at a top 25 university, you can be a very competitive med school or law school applicant with a 3.5. I guess you'll figure all this out next year, though.</p>
<p>I got pretty much the exact same letter from UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks before I got accepted. I also got the UVA letter on Friday. And, if it matters, I'm out of state.</p>
<p>That's why I said a 'near 4.0'. There are things much more important than a 4.0 in college. I know. :)</p>
<p>A 3.0 is avg at UVa? At the ivies, it's around a 3.4 and 3.5.</p>
<p>A 3.0 doesn't fly for any med school I've read... more like a 3.7 and 3.8.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for the information.</p>
<p>Have you taken organic chemistry or biology? If so, how hard was it? Super hard?</p>
<p>The Ivies also have more talented students (on average) and a bit more grade inflation (like most private schools.) </p>
<p>I didn't say that 3.0 would fly for medical school. Many medical schools have average GPAs in the 3.4-3.6 range (such as VCU and UVA.) </p>
<p>I haven't taken either. They're not supposed to be terribly hard. They're just s*<strong><em>y classes. Imagine being crammed in a room with 499 other people to hear lectures on inhumanly boring material, having a TON of work to do on said crappy material, having to go through hours and hours a week of labs and writing the lab reports that go with them, and then, at the end of the class, finding that the curve f</em></strong>s you and that only 10% of the class gets an A.</p>
<p>damn, that makes me not want to go to med school lol</p>
<p>well, hhmm... I'm pretty sure that if you want to be that 10%, you can.</p>
<p>That's what they all say.</p>
<p>is uva a "preppy haven"??</p>
<p>I got the letter too, on Friday. Takes off a lot of that stressful uncertainty, for one school at least :)</p>
<p>well, it's a great school to bag.</p>
<p>Preppy haven? Probably...my school is chock full of preps and it is a big feeder school to UVA.</p>