<p>Ryan, don't you qualify for instate? Below your name it says DC. Are you not a DC resident? $7000 per year for 2 years is not alot. Look at the big picture. Did you get accepteted to Mcintire? I would say it is certainly worth it and probably a bargain.</p>
<p>Schneider09--I got waitlisted. I have been told they send out 675 acceptance letters for 500 spots. In the last few years they have turned to the waitlist to fill 50 to 100. This is my dream school so I am keeping my fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Hey..guys..I'm new..:)...I also got into U.Va..</p>
<p>I am an international student who live outside of the US.</p>
<p>Are you guys planning to live off-campus or on-campus?</p>
<p>I wanna live off-campus.</p>
<p>However, I have no idea about and familar with Charlottesville..:(...</p>
<p>Could you guys give me some information?..:)</p>
<p>Charlottesville is rated the best place to live in America</p>
<p>Does anybody know anything about parking? Are sophomores who live on campus allowed to have one.</p>
<p>I did a search, but the only thread that popped up was full of irrelevant stuff about the morality of having a car as a freshman.</p>
<p>I GOT INNNNNNN!
=D</p>
<p>Join the group, you guys:
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2348608201%5B/url%5D">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2348608201</a></p>
<p>Noor S.</p>
<p>Braird, could you tell us what's the source of your information? Are they official? I've been waitlisted too...very anxious...
BTY, which school did you apply to? Dean J said that they would go to the wait list according to schools.</p>
<p>Jps - sophmores can park on-grounds. They'll issue passes based on where you live i'm pretty sure. This info will come later on when they send out all of housing/food/parking/orientation info</p>
<p>Apple822- I applied to CAS-- philosophy/politics and law is the program I really want! The program offers everything I am looking for so I am very anxious!</p>
<p>Got my info from the website.
<a href="http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/documents/TransferWLFAQ2.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/documents/TransferWLFAQ2.pdf</a></p>
<p>Braird,Thank you! It's very helpful!
I applied to the School of Architecture. Hope we have good luck!</p>
<p>Have you done anything after waitlisted? I plan to write to them expressing my interests, yet I don't know if it will help... It seems the spring grades are the most important.</p>
<p>I would send them a letter, as you never know if it might help ot not. If you're borderline with someone else on the waitlist, it just might give you that extra boost. Good luck :)</p>
<p>Thank you, shoebox! I will try.</p>
<p>By the way, Congratulations to you! If only I could become your schoolmate...</p>
<p>yea-ok:</p>
<p>You talk about connecting the dots, but apparently you're so focused on staring at those little dots that you don't see the big picture. I'll make this simple for you:</p>
<p>4.0 GPA (36 credit hours) vs. 3.4 GPA (min. 54 credit hours)</p>
<p>This essentially boils down to an 'A' student, not admitted, versus a 'B' student, admitted. Choosing a student who isn't as on-point because it costs the state less- would you categorize this as a "smart" long-term strategy? Put your thinking cap on Einstein. This CLEARLY does not apply to you if you have a 4.0 big guy. </p>
<p>In order to obtain a 3.4 GPA over 60 credit hours, you need 8 A's & 12 B's (or more A's and fewer B's if you have a few C's). </p>
<p>So under university policy, I'm not a good candidate this year (with a 4.0). But if I wait a whole year, and take a few more classes, and get 4 B's and 4 C's, then I'll have my admittance in hand. Brilliant! Makes so much sense. And clearly, not lowering the bar (or "dumbing it down") at all, is it? </p>
<p>You call my desire for 3 years of schooling at UVA 'whining'. This is laughable. I am merely pointing out what the president of the university himself undertands:</p>
<p>“We’ve always found that the earlier students transfer, the better they do here … so we have liked to see students transfer after one year,” said UVa President John T. Casteen III. “But the state is looking for [the Virginia Community College System] to graduate more students with associate’s degrees.” </p>
<p>I'm just agreeing. </p>
<p>This is all about money, and we all know money talks. It's just that in this case, what it's saying it's bull$#!+.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what's going on with Orientation? The website says that its only July 24th (for second-year CAS, and everyone else except A-school) and July 23rd (CAS third-years). Does this mean that transfer orientation is only 1-day this year? Or is this simpy an error?</p>
<p>One day is all you need for orientation, if you ask me. Granted, I was busy finishing up a paper for my STS class. The Bridge program taught me more about UVA than all of the orientation presentations combined.</p>
<p>Bait & Switch-- as I said before UVa admissions is in a world of its own. I know of a freshmen applicant that was told by the theater department "we really want you, your resume is incredible, we will recommend you, we hope to see you at freshmen orientation." Her stats were fine for UVa--- she was denied. I know of a young man whose parents were stars of the engineering
department when they attended UVa. Their son went to the super magnet school in northern va, won numerous engineering awards-- he was denied- even though the engineering school went to the admissions office and said we want this kid. He was denied
There is no way to figure out what they want or how they decide. They operate out of a little ivory tower.
Don't take anything as a reflection on your talents, skills or abilities.</p>
<p>I had a personal experience like that last year. I had a rep from the theater department tell me that, with my awards in that department and my stats, I was basically in. Guess what, no acceptance. I don't hold a grudge, but just don't take anything pre-acceptance/denial letter as absolutely accurate</p>
<p>Braird- I'm not using an admissions department at a state university as a measuring stick of self-worth. I'm going to be successful, according to my standards, period, simply because I am driven to be. I will say it for the 10th time: I have seen so much illogical stuff going on at UVA, it's simply a strange, inconsistent, and frustrating group of people to have determining the future of my public, 'premier' state university. </p>
<p>On this note, I would like to mention, for irony's sake, and to provide some prospective, that I have been placed on a "short" waitlist for a spot at a university that received almost 1450 applications for 20 available spots for this fall. In case anyone is curious, that's less than a 1.35% acceptance rate per every 100 applications received by this university. <strong><em>Psst</em></strong>: this school starts with an "S" and ends with "tanford". </p>
<p>Go figure UVA. </p>
<p>"We appreciate your patience with this process and your willingness to be flexible. I hope you understand how impressed we were with your application and how much we value your interest in Stanford.</p>
<p>With best wishes,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid"</p>
<p>(Full-letter @ <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=311063&page=28%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=311063&page=28</a>)</p>
<p>B&S: I was trying to be sympathetic with you for a long time, but now I've got a bone to pick. You keep crapping on UVA's admissions office, and are basically saying that the adcoms don't pay attention to applications, are "illogical, strange, inconsistent, and frustrating" and just take what looks like the best without much thought to it. Now I know you're upset about being rejected, and I'm sorry for that. I know I would be on here throwing a fit as well. But, through your comments about the adcoms, it makes it seem like for those of us who did get in, just got in by luck, not by our hardwork and dedication to our application. So, I can see why you're angry and want to blame UVA. But stop blaming the adcoms and basically calling them useless and stupid, because it makes those of us who got in appear like we didn't try. I worked my butt off on my application, and worked with what little I had, and made it into a success. I'm sorry you wern't as lucky, but in honesty, your application probably didn't show what they were looking for.</p>
<p>Also, about Stanford: unless you show that the waiting list really is "short", don't assume it means 10-50 people. With 1400 applications, I would think short means ~100-200 people, especially since a lot of those who apply to Standford are probably also applying to Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, Duke, UVA, UCs, ect and might chose those over Stanford</p>
<p>Congrats! All schools are different and they seek to fill different functions in their class. Again this is why an acceptance or rejection is not a judgement of anyone as a person, it is simply a judgement of what that particular school needs in their class. UVA is not known for using the waitlist as a way to up selectivity, I am not trying to say this is what Stanford is doing but it has been known to be a practice at some schools. But UVA is not really known to play the selectivity or USNWR game much at all. </p>
<p>Also UVA admissions is relatively transparent. It really isn't very illogical. I personally have not been surprised by any of the UVA decisions in the last two years that I've been following college acceptances at my school. Transfer admissions are different but even that is relatively clear cut: they prefer third years out of VCCS. That has some more to do with Va's GA type leadership than the UVA adcoms.</p>