Out of State Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Virginia
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<p>Hello. I plan on applying to UVA and it is kind of a recent addition to my list. Not sure why I overlooked it in the first place, I guess because C-Ville sould rural and I kind of want urban/by a city, but UVA is a big enough and the natural beauty is astounding (have not been on campus, will visit if I get in, I only live about 6 hours away), but I've been to Harrisonburg, WV/VA border for service trip and it was a beautiful part of the country. Went to Monticello, but I was like 6, so that doesn't really count. </p>

<p>Anyways</p>

<p>Male
Not reporting race
Catholic High School</p>

<p>GPA: UW around a 3.8, probably a low 3.8ish. W 4.17ish
Grade Trend: Might hurt me a little bit. Frosh yr was pretty good, soph year was pretty good/really, I showed an upward trend for the most part. 1st semester Jr year was pretty good too, but 2nd semester I kind of burned out and ended up with 3 Bs. I have a total of 5 Bs on my transcript (not horrible I know), and 4/5 were in math or sci classes, which is definitely not my forte. Not freaking out about Bs, I was pretty chill when I got my report card, but it kinda sucks to end Jr. yr on kind of a crappy note, with half my classes getting Bs in them.
Anyways.
Class Rank: My school is kind unclear they say they don’t rank, but they tell in a counselor rec the approximate rank. I should be in at least the top 5-10% so I’m guessing they’ll put down something like that. Or they might not put anything in the letter. I’m not sure.</p>

<p>SAT: 700 M 690 CR 720 W --- 2110 total (single sitting, not superscore)
ACT: 29 (30 superscored, but I don't think UVA superscores the ACT) I'm not sending this score, my SAT is clearly better. Though I might retake it in Sept to hopefully get a 32+. But if not my SAT score is good, not great, but in range for USC.
5/6* APs by graduation. *School is unclear, we might be credit for taking my physics class last year because right now it is an AP class..and its basically the same thing, but I doubt the college board will let them do that. Will haven taken 7-8 test though by graduation, however only 2 were this year.
SAT IIs: Should be decent (have not taken yet), expecting 700+ in Math 1/2(not sure which on to take), anything less than 750 on USH will be a huge disappointment for me. For the third one, I'll probably pick some English one or self study World History</p>

<p>Teacher and Counselor Recs: Teacher one should be pretty good, my grade in the teacher's class that I'm asking to write me a rec rarely dipped below a 97% (AP class) and I think he liked me as a person/student. Not sure about counselor one, we get to write a "brag" sheet, so it should be at least ok.</p>

<p>Essays: Trying to brainstorm, but I've had a relatively semi interesting life, so hopefully I can come up with something cool and unique. Maybe MDA camp?</p>

<p>ECs: Pretty solid, though nothing spectacular like some people on CC.</p>

<p>-Eagle Scout, plus one year of being Senior Patrol Leader
-Student Govt Representative (lowest position in student govt, lol)
-Work Experience: 1 secretary job at my Church, another is a yard work type job. I may quit the handyman job/yard work job soon though, but I've had that job since summer before freshman year, so it should still look pretty good.
-Student Ambassador and Freshman Mentor (more intensive than you think haha)
-NHS
-Minor role in school paper
-Mock Trial
-Model UN
-Catholic Schools for Peace and Justice
-AP US History Co-Student of the Year</p>

<p>probably leaving a couple minor things out</p>

<p>Service:
-Have not tallied up my hours, but it should be about 300+ service hours when I apply (tutor at school and local library, soup kitchens, various things, etc...)
-Eucharistic Minister at my church, at my school and I go to the nursing home and distribute Communion.
-MDA Camp Counselor. This is where a bulk of my service hours came from. Very demanding, but very rewarding and I plan on doing it again next year. I also participate in a program that helps disabled kids play sports during the summer and school year. Might write an essay about this. Something to the gist of the first day and a half or so of camp, I absolutely hated it, but it kind of grew on me and I really want to go back. </p>

<p>Think this is about it, sorry it was kind of long and there might be a few typos, do you need any more info?</p>

<p>So what do you think? Right now, as an OOS applicant I'm thinking it is a high match/low reach...thoug in my gut I think I'm going to to get in...or at least I hope! But I wouldn't be surprised if I got rejected though :(. Maybe they will treat me as in-state if I tell them that I used to live in NoVA, but had to move because my dad is military haha. But we only moved there because he was military haha. </p>

<p>So what do you think? I know I have a shot, not a great shoo-in one, but this is not a high holy crap reach for me either.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Bump. </p>

<p>High Match-low reach (leaning towards low reach) a good classification?</p>

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<p>Depending on the reputation of your high school I would agree with your classification. You are going to find that the reputation of your high school is very important. That is where evaluating the B’s you talk about comes into play. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Ok thanks. </p>

<p>My school is pretty good. It is generally regarded as one of the better schools in the area, so that should help. But not that many kids go to UVa from here, though we had two last year, but both were athletes. One I’m pretty sure one would have gotten in on his own, without the sports scholly (took BC calc as a jr., very smart) but the other one would have been more borderline, but he was no dummy.</p>

<p>Thanks again.</p>

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<p>I agree with you judgment of your chances, but UVA OOS admissions is hard to predict.</p>