<p>@Pete777: according to the UVA transfer FAQ page:</p>
<p>"How many students from Virginia Community Colleges do you take?</p>
<p>Nearly half of our 500 enrolling fall transfers will be coming from a VCCS school"</p>
<p>@collegebra: Based on the past couple of years I think we all estimated that decisions will come out tomorrow. However, due to the lack of activity on the transfer blog this week compared to this week last year I’m starting to think that we won’t get our decisions tomorrow. Hopefully I’m wrong.</p>
<p>Yes, I really hope they put decisions out tomorrow. Whether I am accepted, rejected, or even waitlisted, this will relieve some stress. Although I really prefer to be accepted :)</p>
<p>Not sure how you came to that conclusion, but the reason that more NVCC students get into UVA and all other schools is because they have the most students by far. So of course they will statistically have more students.</p>
<p>Seta, I’m not a NOVA student, I attend PVCC located on the outskirts of Charlottesville. I will agree with Pete in that being a vccs student gives you an advantage, rather than the advantage being particular to NOVA. Also while, 3.5 might be the average for UVA transfer combined, the average for the Commerce school has traditionally been a 3.8, hence my worrying. The Comm School has roughly 35 slots for 250 applicants, provided some of the 250 do not have all the requirements. I know personally 6 people applying to the Comm School with stats equal or better than myself; I can only imagine other applicants from NOVA, J Searg, Southside, etc.; VA has so many schools in its VCCS system. </p>
<p>I know UVA, as most schools prefer to release these decisions on Friday evenings to give rejected and waitlisted students a chance to gather and reevaluate themselves over the weekend. Nobody wants to be in the admissions office if a rejected student should make a scene, or worse. If the decisions are not released tomorrow, it would mean they are simply behind schedule. The would mean an even worse scenario for myself, because it would imply a highly competitive applicant pool.</p>
<p>Here are my reasoning’s and speculations of nova vs. any other community college</p>
<p>Consider the Number of Undergrads from NOVA to UVA2010: 45.6%,
2011: 45.6%
2012: 47%. </p>
<p>So nearly half are from northern Virginia </p>
<p>On the Transfer Student FAQ on the UVA website this answer was given : “Nearly half of our 500 enrolling fall transfers will be coming from a VCCS school”</p>
<p>Thus:
nearly half are from northern Virginia
nearly half are from a community college
I would reason that northern Virginia community college has an advantage over those not in northern Virginia and those not in a community college or those who are neither in a community college nor in northern Virginia</p>
<p>The sheer number of those accepted from northern Virginia community college is so great UVA offers NOVA students the opportunity to earn a Bachelors Degree from UVA at the NOVA campus due to the overflow transfer admissions from NOVA. </p>
<p>In particular I have been told personally via email and phone the advantage NOVA has over any other school. This isn’t to say that Nova is the best, you’ll get in if you go to NOVA, or that other colleges are not similar or not better than NOVA… No. I’m saying in terms of data and statistics pulled on the topic and from my own personal experiences, NOVA has a higher rate of acceptance to UVA than many. </p>
<p>Probably the last time I comment on this subject, because it is all speculation at this point.</p>
<p>I personally doubt that if I do not get it in, it was because I didn’t go to NOVA, but rather the two B’s in high school DE Class and B in Business Calc (combined with my lack of business related EC’s).</p>
<p>However when Seta (who definitely does his research, props) says “the sheer number…” it kind of makes my point. The number of students at NVCC is disproportional to others. More students = more chances of students with higher intellect = more applicants.</p>
<p>At my community college I do not know a person from either my Accounting or Economics classes that are trying to transfer into UVA Mcintire. Not to say no one is qualified, but they prefer to transfer somewhere closer to home.</p>
<p>^^This is true. I agree completely that in no way, shape, or form does nova mean acceptance. I just don’t think it is harder for a NOVA student than other community colleges to transfer to UVA.</p>
<p>I should rephrase my previous statement on it being better to be a Nova student than not: There are a great number of opportunities that are unique to Nova that make transferring to UVA very easy. One of these is the BIS agreement made in 2009 to earn a UVA Bachelors degree at Nova. This isn’t to say other schools don’t have opportunities of their own, it is meant to be that every available assistance, privilege, and guidance needed by the hopeful transfer applicant is available to Nova Students and as such, it is not the attendance at the school that will deter admissions opportunities but the academic, community, social, and personal shortcomings that lead a transfer hopeful away from the acceptance he or she wishes to earn.</p>
<p>for the sake of diversity, i’m a NOVA resident, out of state student at internationally ranked engineering school, expecting to be waitlisted into an eventual denial due to sub-stellar high school performance and a bad class last semester.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it makes any difference at all if you have not completed the math gen ed?? I’m asking because I am a student at JMU trying to transfer to CAS, but terrified that I will not get accepted just because of this one dumb credit. I intend to take it at community college before enrolling at any school in the fall, but I’m still nervous. :/</p>
<p>@Pete they do let us know a day prior to the release right? So no news would probably mean that the release date isn’t tomorrow. Or is there a possibility they might shoot all of us an email to check our status?</p>
<p>they usually post something on their blog like, “today’s email” or “transfer decesion” and something like that on the last friday of apr, which we all know is apr,26, tomorrow.
i don’t think we will see a news on the blog today and all we can do is to stay calm and see if they post up something around 12:00 pm tomorrow</p>
<p>no they post something and email us on the same day that they release our decisions.
they say something on their blog around 12:00 to 1:00 pm, and applicatants will start checking their decisions from 5:00 pm, on the same day</p>