<p>I heard that UVA gives special preference to minorities. Is this true?</p>
<p>not really, theres more majorities applying. they accepted 6000 students and only 300 of them were hispanic.</p>
<p>it’s true of any university, under represented minorities are treated differently and are given a “boost” in the admissions process.</p>
<p>LOL, “not really” says the guy who gets in with a 600 on his verbal SAT.</p>
<p>I would think it’s true seeing the results of this year, but I am not in the admissions office.</p>
<p>does a 600, tell you who I am? no. it doesn’t tell you that i don’t live in a nice little suburb and my parents drive their nice little bmw’s like you probably do. and what I was referring to was this: 3636 students are Caucasian, 670 are African-American, 861 are Asian, 399 are Hispanic and 42 are American Indian. Apparently, Caucasians are highly represented. these affirmative action debates are pointless anyway, you’re an ignorant teenager with no political influence.</p>
<p>Hahaha, yeah…well, I just graduated from UVA and I’m actually latino and no, I am not a legacy or rich. I never said test scores correlate to how succesful any student will be in college, however, we have to keep it real and not sugarcoat things. Minorities DO get a boost. It’s not a “kinda/sorta/perhaps”. We do and there’s nothing wrong with that. I didn’t score extremely high on my SATs like some of peers, but you know what-- I graduated with a 3.9, Phi Beta Kappa and with Highest Distinction from UVA, something that many of my peers did not do. Test scores don’t mean s*it, but don’t act as if you didn’t get a boost from a being latino and being out of state.</p>
<p>Alex where are you getting these numbers from?</p>
<p>thats great wahoomb! just the way you said it made you seem like a prick. I can’t tell you what type of boost i had whether it was being latino or playing varsity sports. You’re right, there is some type of boost but it could have been something else in my application that pushed me to the admit pile. </p>
<p>heres the link: [Cavalier</a> Daily](<a href=“http://cavalierdaily.com/news/2009/mar/27/university-offers-admission-to-prospective-class-o/]Cavalier”>http://cavalierdaily.com/news/2009/mar/27/university-offers-admission-to-prospective-class-o/)</p>
<p>Right on Alex. That is what I’m talking about. We latinos do get a boost, and yeah it might sports, or our personal stories, but you know what, if we get into UVA, we deserve it. All of my latino friends are the brightest peeps I have ever met. I hope you choose Virginia and prove all of the haters wrong! Good luck!</p>
<p>Well almost every uni does affirmative action to some extent, and IIRC UVA does too. But there’s nothing one can do about it, so just work as hard as you can in HS and see what happens :D</p>
<p>being a legacy is a type of AA as well…</p>
<p>UVa gives a huge admissions boost to blacks and native americans. I don’t think a huge boost is given to hispanics and no boost is given to asians.</p>
<p>im a hispanic student and got admitted to uva.
i got an email like a week ago from a student representing the latino student union, and in the email the student mentioned that the latino student union works in part with the office of admissions.
Now, i dont know whether or not that means that they in part give preferences to some of the hispanics students who applied, but i just thought that it was interesting that the latino student union works with the office of admissions.
Once again, feel free to correct me if anyone out there knows anything, i really dont know.
Also, at my school there were a number of caucasion students who were denied. They were really bitter because a number of minority applicants were accepted who most definitely had lower stats than them, but once again, im only speaking in terms of stats. It is very likely that those minority students had a better overall application, but it is a fact that minorities have in the past lower average SAT/GPAs than caucasion students.</p>
<p>Luckily, i didnt rely on my race to get me into uva. :)</p>
<p>I can assure you that the Latino Student Union (LSU) does not work with the office of admission. I was in LSU while at UVA and my best friend is currently the president of LSU and we do not have any connection with the admission office. We do, however, get requests from the Dean of Latino students to e-mail prospective latino students. I believe the boost that Latino students get is pretty insignificant as compared to the boost that African American students get. Nonetheless, the different boils to SAT scores because as far as GPAs, latinos tend to do just as well in high school as their white counterparts (this is all from my own observations that I made while an undergrad at UVA).</p>
<p>wahoomb - I believe you, but i was just basing what i said on this email:</p>
<p>Hi Jonathan,
My name is ____________ and I’m a student here at the University of Virginia. I’m part of the Latino Student Union here on grounds which works in part with the Office of Admission. </p>
<p>And youre right about how the boost is not that much compared to white classmates.
But i mean at my school it was pretty obvious that african american students got a boost, because there were a number of qualified students who didnt get accepted. Then again, thats pretty much the case in every state (4,000 waitlisted).
Then again, its not really a secret that uva uses AA for black students.</p>
<p>Just remember this johnyboi, don’t ever let someone make you feel like you got into UVA because you’re latino. As data shows, I don’t have the website right now, but I can look for it, there have been years when latinos have gotten accepted to UVA at lower rates than white students. There are quite a few ignorant people like that everywhere (including UVA), but you just have to prove them wrong. Anyway, I hope you end up going to UVA, you’ll love it. I have a ton of Ecuadorian friends (they’re mostly from Guayaquil), not too many Bolivians at UVA and that is why you need to enroll!!</p>
<p>wahoomb - I would definitely like to see this website you mention.</p>
<p>my dream is that one day admissions will be race-blind, and instead factor in economic status as a means for AA. Anyone have an ETA on that?</p>
<p>Congrats to all of those who earned there way into UVA based on a tough (although biased) admissions process. Most of you worked your butts off to produce 1450+ SATs, 4.00 GPAs, and endless hours to ECs.<br>
Others, as they admit on other posts, have shamefully been ‘banking’ on Affirmative Action as an URM in order to slip ahead of another more deserving applicant who has a better all-around application. Sadly, this has occurred countless times this year at UVA, and looks like it will for quite a while. Admissions (Dean J?) won’t admit this, but the hard data in the link below cannot be argued against intelligently. (Granted it’s a couple of years old, but in academia nothing changes quickly).
So to answer the original poster’s question, about whether “UVA gives special preference to minorities”…the answer, unfortunately, is an absolute ‘yes’. A very weak defense will abuse the word ‘diversity’ in order to try and explain away why this practice is followed.<br>
The day that UVA, and other schools, use a ‘race-blind’ admissions process, will be a great day, although unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be anytime soon.
In the meantime, their unethical, existing process is an embarrassment to truly deserving minorities and to all non-minorities who were rejected in favor of a lower qualified applicant.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ceousa.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=196[/url]”>Center for Equal Opportunity;
<p>I agree with “protean”, however, life IS unfair and has been unfair to racial minorities. </p>
<p>[IAS</a> Data Catalog: Historical Data Home](<a href=“http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/historical.htm]IAS”>http://www.web.virginia.edu/IAAS/data_catalog/institutional/historical/historical.htm)</p>
<p>This is the site that I found that information, however, it seems like they took down the admission percentage rates for different races, what a shame, it was very interesting. I’m going to keep looking for it though.</p>