<p>I applied as ED back in fall and was deferred. Still, I'm keeping my hopes up for UVa as my first choice. I was just wondering what my chances would be in the RD pool. Here's my ED vs RD stats.</p>
<p>Stats:
Asian male student in mid-atlantic region (OOS)
Very Competitive HS (ranked within the top 150 in newsweek high school rankings)
3.9 Cumulative GPA Weighted / 4.3 GPA Scale (4.3=Straight A's in all APs)
3.8 Cumulative GPA UnWeighted / 4.0
<em>4.0 Unweighted GPA this year
*4.28 Weighted Gpa this year
Top 15% of Class
630 Verbal / 730 Math (1360) vs *680 Verbal / *740 Math (1420)
650 Writing - Stayed same
SAT II's - US Hist:720, MathII:720, Physics:650 (retaking physics and mathII in a few weeks)
Classes taken are all honors or APs.
AP Calc - 5
AP US - 4
Taking 5 AP's Senior Year (Stat/Chem/PhysicsC/CalcBC/(Micro/Macro)Econ)
Will have 9 AP Tests completed by end of senior year.
EC:
Track and Field : Freshman/Sophomore/Junior year
Indoor Track : Sophomore Year
Older Sibling attends University of Delaware currently.
Notable Facts: My HS does not give out GPA or class rank to colleges. Applying to CAS under Pre-Commerce major. The "</em>" denotes new things that UVa will see.</p>
<p>Is there hope? UVa is still my first choice by far :)</p>
<p>for OoS it is almost imperative for you to be in top 10% or 5%.. i think your SAT scores are not that bad (if uva doesnt look at writing). Id ont know. Too close.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that my school doesn't give out percentages(deciles), could that help?
Also, a girl from my school was accepted ED but she was a 3rd generation legacy. Detrimental?</p>
<p>sorry to say, but i think your chances are slim. uva has too many asians as it is and your scores and grades arn't exactly anything to write home about within the OOS pool.</p>
<p>I disagree with jags. I cant give an assessment as to your chances but i will definitely say they are more than slim. And UVA does NOT have "too many asians", if anything, top schools have much more than we do. We just have an overrepresentation of preppy white southern hicks :)...but ye...work hard on those essays, make urself stand out and be unique, emphasize service</p>
<p>i could be wrong here, but when schools say they want diversity, they mean they want to have the same demographics of the community around them represented in their school. therefore, since UVa represents the state of virginia, they want to represent the community of the state of virginia.</p>
<p>virginia has like 71% white kids - which is about the same as UVa. Where UVa falls short is in black students - Virginia is like 20% black, yet UVa only has 8 or 9% black students. </p>
<p>If you notice, hispanics - who are considered a "minority" get a miniscule - if any statistically viable edge in admissions versus white students. thats because UVa is like 3% hispanic...and so is virginia. because UVa doesn't "need" more hispanic students (to get that equilibrium with Virginia's hispanic population) they don't give hispanic students that "AA boost."</p>
<p>The problem arises with asian students. they on a whole score better on SATs than any other race - which is why they are over represented in top colleges. However, the reason why its tougher for asians to get into top colleges is because they are competing against a limited number of slots for asians - because asians on a whole make up a much smaller percent of the population than they represent in top schools. Virginia is between 3% and 4% asian, yet UVa's asian population is hovering around 11%.</p>
<p>for an asian student like Seuol, who is out of state, not in the top 10% of his class, doesn't have an incredible SAT score (not that 1420 isn't good - its a great score - just in a very competitive pool), and with no really commendable EC's, I think he will have a very difficult chance of getting in after a deferral.</p>
<p>Thanks for speaking your mind jags. I was thinking that my chances were slim too, bummer. I guess I'll have to just hope for the best! Thanks for the inputs!</p>