The art and science of when to submit the application

<p>I believe 105 TJ students from the Class of 2012 will be heading to UVA in the fall. Last year, they admitted 225 and 106 students enrolled. I assume the admit number will be similar to the Class of 2011.</p>

<p>I am in literally the exact same situation. I’m taking 6 APs next year so I feel like my GPA could go up a good amount. Right now I have a 4.OW and a 2O4O SAT, so help me out by helping OP out! Darn NoVa for being so competitive…</p>

<p>@Virginiuh - What is your UW GPA? Is it likely to change much between now and after first semester next year?</p>

<p>Don’t apply early if you don’t have your test scores, rec letters and essays as good as possible. If you do have those ready, I’d tell my kid to go ahead and apply early.</p>

<p>This past year UVA had 12k EA applications. They accepted 3k and deferred 3k. Deferrals get rolled over into the RD pool where the admissions office will see your fall semester grades. I could see one semester of killer grades moving you from an EA maybe to an RD yes.</p>

<p>Do you really think that one semester of grades would jump you all the way from an EA reject (passing several thousand EA deferrals along the way) to an RD accept? So I’d rather know in January so I could get on with things. If you don’t mind waiting or don’t have your act together, then apply RD.</p>

<p>McLean had 50+ acceptances last year</p>

<p>I’d say pretty low, maybe around a 3.4 or 3.5? The AP classes that I’m taking have the absolute nicest teachers, last year they gave A’s to almost every student who they thought were at least trying so that they’re semester GPAs would go up, so I think it should go up a good amount.</p>