<p>I'm worried that because I am OOS, I will have no shot at acceptance into UVA. I know how low the acceptance rate is for non-virginia residents and that worries me. I have great ECs and will have good Recs (esp. from my guidance counselor), but my GPA and standardized test score I'm not so sure about.</p>
<p>After junior year, my GPA unweighted should be a 3.8 (weighted a 4.4).
My ACT score, which I just got back, was a 33, which is good, but up to UVA standards I'm not so sure about?</p>
<p>Do I have a shot? Or would I be stupid to even apply?
So wishing that I was living in Virginia right about now...</p>
<p>I don’t chance students, but let me just say that GPA is meaningless without context. Every school has a different methodology for calculating GPA.</p>
<p>Would it be helpful to tell you what classes I have taken? What other information could I provide that would help you (or whoever reads this) chance me?</p>
<p>General GPA calculations:
UW: A- 4.0, B- 3.0, etc.
W: A (HNS/AP)- 5.0, B (HNS/AP) - 4.0, A (non HNS/AP)- 4.0 as well… etc.</p>
<p>Every school on this site has a thread from the previous year where students who applied post their stats and whether they were accepted, rejected or waitlisted. You should take the time to read through one of those. If anything else it will show you the range of stats of all students accepted. It is wide.</p>
<p>I’m not going to chance, but I’ll give you this.
On my old school’s Naviance scattergrams, the average ACT is 33 and average GPA is 94.4. Take from that what you will.</p>
<p>Just have to point out that the student is at a school where Honors and AP courses get the same weight in GPA calculation. Historical data about his/her school isn’t going to be all that meaningful as a result.</p>
<p>This actually seems to be a growing trend. There are schools where students are loading up on Honors courses (sometimes electives marked Honors) because those courses carry the same GPA bump as AP courses.</p>
<p>The scattergrams for those schools will make the decisions of many colleges look pretty erratic because strength of program is an important factor.</p>
<p>I definitely got 5.0 on my GPA from Honors Chorus. Was just talking about this the other day, actually… People actually would not take foreign language at my school sometimes because they could get honors credit for things like accounting while foreign language was 2 years of 4.0 on your GPA before it was counted as honors. This is why they did away with class rank at my school, so that people felt slightly more free to take electives.</p>