Uva rd results/decisions class of 2022

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Here is the official decision thread.

Please don’t use this thread for questions or comments. Just results.

Copy the text below into your post, and then fill in the details.

Decision:

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, legacy etc.):

Reflection

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments:

MODERATOR’S NOTE: This thread is for decisions ONLY. Any comments/questions without results will be deleted without comment.

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Decision: Accepted (international)

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 740 R+W 730 M 1450C
ACT (breakdown): 35E 35M 32R 28S (rip) 33C
SAT II: 740 Bio M, 730 Math II, 800 Spanish w listening
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a
IB (place score in parenthesis): I only have predicted scores and no idea if they got sent. HL Bio (6), HL Chem (5), HL Econ (6), HL English A Lang&Lit (6), SL Spanish A Lit (7), SL Math (6)
Senior Year Course Load: ^ rigorous. I regret not taking HL Math though
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none, these are very rare in my country

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
OK I LACK A LOT OF LEADERSHIP, I KNOW. I was never into leadership roles and wanted to be a leader in my own ways. Positions shouldn’t define you.

National music honor society (lead alto saxophone)
Jazz band (lead alto sax)
South American international music festival (lead alto sax)
Writing my online cookbook on Blogger
Literary magazine and school newspaper (I post my narratives and recipes, does that count as leadership LOL)
Musical theater (part of music ensemble)
Varsity trail running, varsity track and field (I kinda suck and always fall behind)
Co-admin of Facebook fan-pages for my favorite band, The Gazette <3

Job/Work Experience: none, rare in my country
Volunteer/Community service:
Make a wish (fundraising),
fundraising and introducing music and the arts to children in a local orphanage
Summer Activities: do they get to know about this? I went to Antarctica in February to snow climb and took shots of penguins and stuff (I live in the southern hemisphere so summer here is Dec-Feb), trail running, cultural trip to China and Colombia, lots of traveling

Rate out of 10
Essays: 9–Common App was great. I grew up with two clashing cultures (Chile-China) in a country where diversity and open-mindedness are not the norm. Wrote about my skepticism towards ignorance and inflexibility. My favorite band is a Japanese goth metal band and I wrote about using the Internet to make a community of online friends who share my passion for strange music and making music covers to post online, hoping our band members would notice us . The supplement could have been more tied to the school though. I wrote, with the perspective of a millennial, about economics and consumer psychology in modern times, especially with the meme culture, Buzzfeed, fidget spinner market, and Bitcoin.
Teacher Recommendation: (Chemistry, English) I wasn’t allowed to read them, I’d say average/generic. I love both teachers but my English teacher had to write 20+ recs.
Counselor Rec: no clue
Additional Rec: none
Other: submitted two music supplement videos

Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: double major music and economics, but I’m actually thinking about music with CS instead
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Chile
School Type: international, private, large
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Latino, racially Chinese
Gender: F
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

I needed this after rejections from UCLA and MIT.
So far my acceptances have been: UVA, BU, UMD College Park, and Fordham.
Still pending: NYU, Tufts, Georgetown, U of T, and Penn (deferred ED).

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Decision: Accepted (International student)

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Did not take
ACT (breakdown):36 M 36 E 35 R 36 S 9 W
SAT II: Did not take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0 UW/4.7 W
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):N/A but should be top 1%~2%
*AP (place score in parenthesis):APUSH (5), AP Chem (5), AP Psychology (5), AP Cal AB (5), AP Physics 1(5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
Senior Year Course Load: (5.0) Church History H, Neuroscience/Genetics H (Medical Magnet Program Class), AP US Gov, APES, AP Physics 2, AP Cal BC, AP Lang, AP Stats online
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ACS First-year Chemistry Contest, Chinese National Dancing Competition, Chinese Province Science Research Papers Contest (state-level, published), Chinese Provincial Biology Subject Contest (state-level), AP Scholar with Distinction.

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-President of our school international club (mobilize ~100 intl students),
-Leader at many clubs (fund-raising, charity sale, etc.)
-Cross Country (JV)
-Online learning at Coursera

Job/Work Experience:
-Interned at a psychiatric institution in China during summer
Volunteer/Community service:
-Assist at an equestrian therapeutic center
Summer Activities:
-Interned at a psychiatric clinic (I have a student visa and can’t intern in the U.S. before 18 out of campus)
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
-9, described how I witnessed women from both China and U.S. suffering from eating disorders and try to help 'em.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 8/9, from my Chem teacher, I remember he said I’m the first student to question and discover a mistake in the pretty prestigious textbook during my first-year chemistry learning
Teacher Rec #2: 8/9 from APUSH teacher, knows I’m pretty good at writing and also knows I love caligraphy and once handwrote a real-size Declaration of Independence for that class.
Counselor Rec: 7 not very familiar, probably mediocre
Additional Rec: 7/8 from the chair of our school’s Medical Magnet Program***
Interview: Did not have any from UVA

Other
I transferred to an American high school on my sophomore year, and our school did not allow first-year international student to take ANY AP Classes & and only started letting me take them since junior year (5 APs). Bummer.
*Entering many contests such as Chemistry Olympia requires a green card…
***I’m not officially “IN” the program because the fees are too high. My tuition & host family fees are already very expensive, so I talked to this teacher and convinced her to let me take the classes normally only open to students in the program (Genetics H, Neuroscience H) (really amazing pre-med experience), but I can’t say I’m part of the program

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Biochem
State (if domestic applicant): *international student studying in CA
Country (if international applicant): From China
School Type: religious private
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 70k-80k dollars (converted from Chinese currency)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, legacy etc.):
First generation in my family to attend a U.S. college (all my family are still in China lol), not sure if this is a hook tho.
Pretty different from typical Asian stereotype (although they can’t really tell since no interview)
A little bit feminist

Reflection
Strengths: good scores and pretty good gpa, unique point of view (kind of)
Weaknesses: not many major awards, couldn’t take enough AP classes in my first year here
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: good standardized scores
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Deferred from Yale SCEA, Rejected from MIT, Waitlisted at WUSTL, Tulane (didn’t write the optional essay, probably realized it’s a safety school), Johns Hopkins, UChicago (should’ve applied ED lol)
General Comments: glad my first offer finally came…

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 730 M 720 R 1450 C
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Did not rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Did not send any scores but took AP Euro, AP Calc AB, AP US History, AP Chem, AP Computer Science A, AP Lit, AP Physics C, AP US Government, AP Calc BC
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Women and Leadership (Elective, one semester), English 12 (Elective, one semster), AP Calc BC, AP Lit, Drama (one semester), AP Physics C, AP Gov (One Semester), Robotics (One Semester), Humanities and Gastronomy (One Semester)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I do not know if any of these count as “Major Awards” but they are slightly more than extracurriculars soooo… Conrad Spirit of Innovation Semi-finalist (International engineering competition), Jefferson Scholar nominee (School), Named Head Prefect for my school for the 2017-2018 academic year (highest form of student leadership, essentially an unpaid member of the administration… overseeing all student leadership and organizations and reporting to admin and head of school)

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Soccer (Four Years, Most Improved 2015, three year captain, MVP 2017), Varsity Lacrosse (Four Years, Most Improved 2015, three year captain), JV/Varsity Basketball ( JV Most Improved 2015, VISAA D III State Champion 2015), Model UN (Secretary), Honor Council, Founding Member of the Video Club (Commentated and livestreamed basketball games and made ads for local businesses), Science Olympiad, Student Ambassador, Indoor Winter Lacrosse League
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: None that I put on the app, I plant trees a couple of times a year, but that’s it.
Summer Activities: Travel Lacrosse with two teams (Evergreen 2018 Elite and NovaWest Elite Flamingos)… this basically takes up my whole summer lol
Essays (rating 1-10, details): “What would you write on beta bridge essay” worked very hard on this one and it is probably my favorite college essay I wrote so 9 or 10/10 (from my perspective ofc)
E-School Essay: hard to write, but I feel like it ended up really coming from my heart so 7 or 8/10
Common App Essay: Definitely the best essay I had and was the toughest to write about because I really dug deep in this one I say 10/10 because I hella exposed who I am, but that was the point of it lol.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: Head of School who I work with all the time. We have a great relationship and I had him for two classes. I did not see the rec, but my counselor said it was very good 9?/10
Teacher Rec #2: English teacher/favorite teacher ever. She helped me through this process all of the way through and really had my back when things got tough. Had to be a 10/10, and even if it was bad I still love this teacher.
Counselor Rec: Probably good
Additional Rec: My advisor, known her since I was in second grade. She has seen me grow and we get along really well. Think it was great 10/10.
Interview: N/A

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Systems Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): Virginia
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Small Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Thanks for working hard, dad. (well-off)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, legacy etc.): My brother and sister both graduated from UVA, but the app did not ask about that so I don’t think it had any impact

Reflection

Strengths: SAT was solid, extracurriculars (mainly how in depth I got involved in these extracurriculars, I really think they looked at that and not just looked for if I did x amount of things), essays (I spent so much time on these essays and really gave it all I had) , and teacher recs
Weaknesses: GPA… it is much lower than UVA advertises their accepted students of having. I definitely was not a straight A student. I would be very close if my school weighted scores, but we don’t.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think I was accepted because the admissions staff looked at me as a whole person and not just my grades and various numbers associated with me. I think they saw I was capable of doing very well in school and then saw how involved I was in my school community. #HolisticReview
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: JMU, Virginia Tech, William and Mary… Waitlisted: Richmond… Rejected: Georgia Tech and Boston College

General Comments:
UVA has been my dream school ever since I stepped foot on Grounds for my brother’s orientation when I was in 5th grade. This truly is a dream come true and I could not be happier. Good luck to everyone reading this who is applying or thinking about applying! I definitely have been there before and I know what is going through your head right now. Just know that no matter where you end up, you are still you, and YOU can do great things. The school on the diploma doesn’t matter it’s YOU that matters.

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Decision: Accepted OOS

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):720 reading 780 math
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II: 790 math 2
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.7 ish
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):english 6, math 6, spanish 5, TOK 7, art 4, history 6
Senior Year Course Load: English HL, Art HL, HOA HL, Spanish SL, Math Sl, TOK
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): mentor for underprivileged kids, swimming, math club, chess clubs, lots of random clubs and experiences
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: 330 hours since 11th grade
Summer Activities: none
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9-10, very very personal and touching, especially the one about what work of literature has surpassed you
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Haven’t read them but I hope they are good

Teacher Rec #1: Math teacher, prob an 8
Teacher Rec #2:bio teacher, prob an 8 as well
Counselor Rec: noooo clue
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
Intended Major:math
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Female
Income Bracket: mid class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, legacy etc.): First gen, immigrant

Reflection

Strengths:Test scores, essays
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No clue, I got wait listed by a lot of my matches so getting into UVA OOS was a big surprise
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted Stony brook, Oswego, Bing, Fordham, UVA

General Comments:

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Decision: accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1490 (R730 M760)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): school doesn’t do gpa and has a super weird grading system…had one B in junior year and one in freshman year; not so sure about freshman/sophomore grades, but junior year average is like 95%
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school does not rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC(5) World History(4) English Lang(4)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, English IV, AP Environmental Science, AP Economics (macro&micro), a research project that counts as a class, chamber ensemble
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): field hockey(JV); international club coordinator; youth orchestra first violin;
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: 30 hours in Udaipur, India; 100 hours at an underprivileged school
Summer Activities: financial economics research with a professor from Univ of Cambridge
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9, like my essay a lot
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec #1: French teacher (7~8): a very nice lady, taught me for two years, I was one of the best students in her class;
Teacher Rec #2: Math teacher (6~7): did not speak much in her class, but had good grades; taught me for two years as well
Counselor Rec: 7, I am from a small school so she knows me a lot; very helpful in the process.
Additional Rec: 8, from my private violin teacher; only taught me for two years but gave many positive comments in my report card; said I was his best student lolll
Interview: none

Other

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major: economics
State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private boarding school
Ethnicity: asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket: >200k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, legacy etc.): none

Reflection

Strengths: essay
Weaknesses: flat application overall, kinda well-rounded but nothing really that impressive
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: balanced courseload throughout high school, demonstrated interests in intended major, and again, sort of well-rounded
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: NYU, Univ of Rochester, William&Mary, Fordham and some other safeties; wl: boston college (applied to business school…), Emory, UNC, Carleton; rejected: Barnard (defer then reject). wustl

General Comments: Could have tried harder, but think I deserve what I get and I am very happy about UVA!