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Do you have to be amazing to get in oos or can you have a 3.9 or a 4.0 with a 2100 and get into uva oos?
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<p>Don't want to worry you but the stats you reference are what you need instate to squeeze your way (which means add great recs & amazing ec's) into UVA as an instate student. OTOH this is the NoVA standard. I really don't know about the rest of the state.</p>
<p>i received a likely letter, and am interested in the echolars scholar program...does the program award any scholarship money, and is there any additional stuff i need to do to be considered?</p>
<p>Echols does not include scholarship money. You don't "apply." It is my understanding that everyone who applies to the college is considered--the admissions reps are looking for potential Echols scholars as they read applications. You should look at the Echols web site--there is a lot of helpful information.</p>
<p>Stick to the topic of "Likely Letter".
Please use the following format to the question of the likely letter. </p>
<p>Received letter: Yes or No
Date submitted application: ?</p>
<p>Cherry, the date the application was submitted has nothing to do with the letter.</p>
<p>lol Cherry, you crack me up. Just relax. I promise, it will be fine ;)</p>
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Stick to the topic of "Likely Letter".
Please use the following format to the question of the likely letter.
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<p>Excuse me?????</p>
<p>You know, you should be careful about equating "star quarterback" with "minority" or "poor." I have a brilliant friend with high SAT's and GPA who is minorty and poor and you have no idea how difficult it is for him to simply fill out applications! First, he has to get fee waivers...then he has to get all kinds of documentation that his family doesn't have available. Please don't refer to being "poor" as if it is some kind of lucky thing that gets you into college. It sounds very spoiled and self-centered.</p>
<p>learnmestuff: Oh certainly I know that~and thx for your reply</p>
<p>My heart skipped a beat when I saw the small envelope from UVa. I was so worried that it was going to be a rejection. Then I opened it and saw the first few lines saying that "I was an extraordinary candidate..." My doubts were not cleared until I saw the absence of the word "rejected" or "denied".</p>
<p>So from reading this thread, it is clear that I have a shot at UVa.</p>
<p>Stats if anyone would like to know.
2190 sat total from one sitting
3.96 unweighted gpa</p>
<p>drynoedea</p>
<p>are you is or oos. cause if you are oos you have the stats that vistany thought would not get you in? if you are is, they are still good.</p>
<p>guys, everyone acts like less than a 2300 is terrible. for a very low percentage of kids, these scores are but most don't get them. and as i said earlier, there is nothing wrong with very good scores instead of amazing scores. Don't colleges want enough of mix that they accept some of us less than kids?</p>
<p>Drynoedea, did you just get your letter this morning?</p>
<p>Everyone, we are talking about likely letters, not offer letters. As it has been said again and again, these letters go to very small percentage of very strong applicants.</p>
<p>The the current first year class at UVa, of all those students who were offered admission, only a couple hundred were sent one of these letters.</p>
<p>Many people seem to be reading into the absence of a letter and that is pointless.</p>
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<p>Please don't skew my words.
1) I said I was 2100 and 3.9-4.0 was generally needed instate for NoVa. I specifically said I don't know about the rest of the state.</p>
<p>2) This person's SAT is 90 points higher (2190) and the GPA is 3.96 unweighted. </p>
<p>3) Neither of us know what else they have in terms of ec's, talent, rec's etc.</p>
<p>4) I don't believe I ever chanced this person, just responded to your request to a 3.9/2100 stat and I told you honestly based on Northern Virginia Naviance information. It is not unheard of for people in Nova to be deferred/rejected with those stats.</p>
<p>Has UVA sent many likely letters to seniors in Northern Virginia?</p>
<p>I don't know how many others, but we live in NoVa and my D received one last weekend.</p>
<p>So far Clas 84 is the first NOVa LL letter listed on this thread but not everyone has listed location. As guilluime posted, most seem to be out of state or international.</p>
<p>Still the total number remains small. Dean J said only 200 LL's went out last year. Nothing to do but worry and wait.</p>
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I know of at least two people at my school who got them (through the grapevine -- I haven't asked anyone so there are probably more) and my friends at other NovA schools said they had heard of people getting them. This was about a week ago, when the first people in the thread started getting them.</p>
<p>I'm from Northern Virginia and I received one last weekend too. And to answer some of the questions before, "normal" people do get likely letters. I have a 3.85 and 2080 SAT. Yes I'm in-state, but I don't think a 2300 is required to get into UVA from out-of-state. I've always had the impression that UVA looks for more well-rounded students. But no matter what your SAT scores are, whether your in or out of state, or whether you have recieved a likely letter or not, admission decisions come out April 1st so there is no sense in stressing out about this stuff until then. What's done is done.</p>
<p>Assuming Dean J's 200 likely letter estimate is correct, only 1.124% of 2007 applicants received likely letters (200/17,798 * 100).</p>
<p>Dean J said that there are ~18,500 applicants this year. Assuming that percentages will be stable year to year, there will be ~208 likely letters given out to applicants.</p>
<p>I read so many posts about CCer's asking about what percentage of applicants get likely letters yet there have been no solid statistics that many people would like to know...strange.</p>
<p>Dean J said in her blog...</p>
<p>"Likely letters are sent to a small percentage of students. A VERY small percentage."</p>
<p>Don't give up if you didn't get a likely letter. Since 6,273 students were offered admission last year, 96.811% of people who got in were not given likely letters.</p>
<p>Here's the website I am basing these stats on...</p>