<p>If you don’t get off the waitlist, take a gap year.</p>
<p>If you need financial aid or merit scholarships, don’t take any classes next year…you need to preserve your incoming frosh status. Transfers often do NOT get good aid or merit.</p>
<p>Your SAT is good, but not high for many of those schools. UVA is rarely a safety, especially if you’re OOS. </p>
<p>What is your financial situation? Will your parents pay full freight wherever you go? If so, there are probably some mid-tier privates and maybe some publics that will still accept you.</p>
<p>Also…try some of the Jesuits, if you don’t mind Catholilc univs.</p>