<p>Super quick question! Does anybody know what the average SAT/ACT scores and GPA of the out-of-state students who get accepted to UVA? Thanks!</p>
<p>this kind of data is not published</p>
<p>All I can give you is that the OOS acceptance rate this year was 26%. nothing else you asked is published.</p>
<p>Most colleges recommend you look at the middle 50% range of accepted students. Although it is only one indicator, it can help show where student without a hook needs to be to have a better chance of admission.</p>
<p>Charlie, for UVA I don’t think the mid 50% is a good indicator. Well maybe all the way at the top of the range, but anywhere else is rather low. At my old school te average naviance is a 33 ACT or a 2210 SAT.</p>
<p>Everyone ranked 2-25 (out of 550 students) applied to UVa. The 1st applied early and got accepted to Wharton.</p>
<p>Out of the 24 kids who applied, only 2 got in and the rest was waitlisted. These kids are incredible (part of a magnet school in NJ with an intense course load) with SATs around 2,260-2,300. The waitlisted kids will go to Notre Dame, UNC, Michigan, Cornell, NYU, etc… So it’s insane for UVa OOS. These are top 5% kids with great stats!</p>
<p>to further make things more “puzzling” for students is that:
~ there are 4 schools , each with a target # of spots the admin wanted to fill.
~ so for IS & OOS, if you’re applying to say “nursing school”, you may be competing fiercely w/ zillions of applicants & they may also look at your HS load/stats differently, i suppose.
~ not to say that which school is easier to get in…just that 4 schools w/ target # of spaces further makes it more 'uncertain"</p>
<p>Crazydad, is the school your talking about Lawrenceville?</p>
<p>I would take the statistics from New Jersey with a grain of salt when comparing OOS statistics. NJ has an excellent school system with many highly motivated, high-achieving students. Few of these students want to stay in New Jersey, and thus NJ is overrepresented everywhere, which is why I think it is more difficult to get into many schools when applying from NJ.</p>
<p>How many times does Dean J have to say: THERE ARE NO QUOTAS from any particular school or REGION of the country?</p>
<p>Hmm, never knew UVA was that competitive. A very bright but extremely single-sided girl from my school was accepted OOS to UVA engineering. She had a 760 M and 590 CR. Don’t know about writing. She was ranked top quintile in our private school class and had a rigorous, but not most rigorous, courseload.</p>
<p>Even if there’s no quotas, I still believe that geography plays a role in admissions.</p>
<p>If you look at a similar student at a similar school from NJ/NY vs. Wyoming, I would be willing to bet that the the kid from Wyoming is more likely to be admitted. Its sort of like race. Universities try to create a diverse class. To do this, they often need to weigh factors like location or ethnicity in admissions to beef up the number of students admitted from groups that would otherwise be even more underrepresented. They may not like to admit to this, but it happens. Saying there are no quotas is one way of shrugging off the question.</p>
<p>It’s sort of like asking someone if they committed a crime last night and having them answer “I didn’t kill anyone!”. Well, it’s not really like that… but I think it’s a funny comparison.</p>
<p>UVABust…No it’s a public high school in Central NJ</p>
<p>Yes, no quotas does not mean no weight. The difference in students admitted from different VA regions shows that while there might not be a quota (some counties do not necessarily send at least one student to UVA every given year), there is a definite weight (the same counties send about the same number of students every year).</p>
<p>I was not saying that there are quotas, I was just saying that its tough to get into schools when so many people from your school are applying. And in NJ, a lot of kids are looking out of state because no one wants to go to Rutgers or TCNJ. Not only that, but all the kids like the same schools. Kind of like how the TJHSST kids that don’t get in may have been top 5% at another high school, but admissions cannot play the what if game.</p>
<p>At my competitive (but not magnet) OOS public, everyone with at least a 1470/1600, 2220/2400 SAT and a >4.3 GPA got accepted by UVA. I would estimate this is the top of our class (my HS doesn’t release rank). Anyone under these scores+GPA had to have a hook, and there have been just a few. The admission rates were a little over 20%. UVA admits more consistently according to the numbers than most other highly competitive colleges. In other words, if you were in that range from my HS, admission looks like a sure thing, though very few get in each year. The ones who do often have top 10 private college/U offers or huge scholarships elsewhere that they take. Only a couple have actually gone to UVA. It’s an amazing state school, and I wish I were instate for the tuition!</p>
<p>I’m the only one from my public high school in Missouri to be accepted to the Echols Program, let alone UVa as a whole.</p>
<p>That said, I’m also the only one who’s ever applied. 
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<p>Wish the financial aid didn’t get so messed up, then I may have UVa '15 under my username instead of Rice '15 (or not, who knows?).</p>
<p>Aww that’s too bad. One of my good friends at UVa was from Missouri actually, lol.</p>
<p>Yeah I know. =(</p>
<p>I can’t guarantee that I would have ended up at UVa anyway, but having to accept an offer as a low-income student without any knowledge of how much I would have to pay is just too risky.</p>
<p>And go MO! hahaha</p>
<p>I’m from MO and I’m going! There’s still hope! I’m also Echols/Jefferson, which is weird in and of itself because no one else from my public school has gotten in before but we consistently send our top students to HYP</p>