<p>My Son was accepted OOS to the school of engineering, but with likely letters from UPenn, Cornell and Rice, UVA is in the back-burner:) Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Our daughter will not go on the site (too nervous) but got an email. Is there any difference between the emails to accepted students vs. for rejected/waitlisted?</p>
<p>@JerseyFamily, not at all…just login and see what happens!!! Good luck</p>
<p>I was accepted but I haven’t received any email yet about my decision, is this a problem</p>
<p>
Your number is a little off. We offer the waiting list as an option. Plenty of students opt not to place themselves on the waiting list.</p>
<p>The incoming class has ten segments (VA and OOS for each of the five academic areas that take first years). It’s hard to predict where there will be room with total certainty. Generally, the larger the school/program, the more spots there tend to be open after the reply date, but that isn’t always the case.</p>
<p>From the 2012-2013 Common Data Set:
Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list? Yes
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on the waiting list: 4,393
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 2,540
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 287</p>
<p>Daughter accepted after being deferred EA. White, OOS (NJ), 3.95, 2270 (760R, 710M, 800W), strong leadersh, no sports, small private school. Congrats to all, best of luck to all, and for applicants next year, don’t despair if deferred EA.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>SAT: 1970
GPA: 3.7 UW</p>
<p>Are offers to waitlist students typically sent before May 1? Does UVA make offers after May 1? Are waitlist students eligible for as much financial aid as they would be with regular admission offers?</p>
<p>rejected after being deferred…quite honestly not sure what the heck they want…
In state
ACT 33
Weighted 4.3, UW 3.99
5 AP’s including AP Calc BS with a 5 on the exam
multisport
NHS
Spanish Honor Society
Octagon
great essays according to Dartmouth and Cornell
Father went there…</p>
<p>rejected after being deferred. It was worth a try, eh? Oh well 4 other schools to decide from
Out of state
SAT 1770
Weighted 4.2, UW 3.2
3 AP’s (AP Calc AB, Government and Physics B)
Cross Country, NHS, Key Club, Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders, BPA, SGA
And much more…</p>
<p>YAY! Daughter accepted regular decision OOS (Connecticut). White, no hook.</p>
<p>Intended major: Biology</p>
<p>34 ACT composite (10 on essay)
4.04 GPA
Class Rank: 6/210</p>
<p>8 APs total, 5 APs Senior year</p>
<p>ECs: Field Hockey - 4 years (All state Scholar Athlete), Track - 2 years, Orchestra 4 years (Concertmaster senior year), Eastern Region Music Festival - 4 years (violin). Dance club, Drama, Community Service (175 hours), NHS, Key Club Officer, Yale Model UN.</p>
<p>Essays - pretty good
Recommendations: likely very good.</p>
<p>UVA is her first choice, but financial considerations will influence where she goes. Still waiting on one more school.</p>
<p>Dean J - Thanks for you for your waitlist post. I would recommend in the interest of transparency that you include this information in the waitlist letter. It would also be helpful and fair to provide the number of offers that were made to individuals on the waitlist. Then the students could better understand the estimated odds noting of course that every year is different. To have 287 admitted, I would suspect the number of offers were likely twice that number if not more. I do agree with Marylandbro, that most students on the waitlist should move on given that nearly all of them will have great choices.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll be the one telling the Dean of Admission that he needs to change his letter to be more like my blog. 
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<p>Based on the fact that people comment and call with questions that are already addressed in the letter, I’m thinking that longer won’t necessarily mean the letter is better. </p>
<p>I haven’t had much time to read the decision letters or admission blogs of our peers, but I’m thinking that we’re probably more transparent that the bulk of them. </p>
<p>By the way, please don’t use College Confidential to contact me. I happened to catch holycow99’s comment, but I don’t have time to check in here regularly. If you need to talk to me directly, use my blog, twitter, instagram, email, or call.</p>
<p>Has anyone received an admitted students packet yet? I found out my decision a week ago today, and I haven’t gotten anything in the mail yet. </p>
<p>Mine came in the mail today!</p>
<p>Echols Scholar notification came in the mail today! :D</p>
<p>I’m confused as to how people know their decision. It says online that they are available today, and I’ve yet to have an update in SIS. I feel like I’m the only one without a notification. </p>
<p>@sjschmidt93, we released first-year decisions on March 21st. I posted about this on every social media platform and we emailed every applicant to make them aware of this.</p>
<p>Either you’re a transfer applicant or you didn’t complete an application (in which case you would have gotten several reminder emails).</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): None
ACT: 27 don’t ask
SAT II: Math 1: 680 Biology M: 700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): None
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calculus AB: 4 taking 5 this year
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Officer at many clubs, tennis, starting tutoring group in Cameroon.
Job/Work Experience: Too young
Volunteer/Community service: Too young
Summer Activities: Traveling
Essays: Pretty good
Teacher Recommendation: 10/10 physic teacher who loves me did not read. AP English teacher 7/10
Counselor Rec: 10/10 much like my physics teacher
Additional Rec: None
Interview: None
Other
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: M
Income Bracket: $40000 yeah I know
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, parents from Cameroon, 13 years old</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (800 math, 760 reading)
ACT: 34
SAT II: Math II: 800,'Chem 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3% of 400 students
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History 5, Chem 5, Language Comp 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Psych, etc…
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lots of athletic ones, states placer, some AMC 12 distinction and AIME, minor school and state awards.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): captain of a varsity team, officer at a national honors society, volunteer leadership, etc
Job/Work Experience: Yeah no time
Volunteer/Community service: Over 160 hours of consistent volunteering
Summer Activities: Pretty generic
Essays: Pretty good
Teacher Recommendation: decent
Counselor Rec: generic
Additional Rec: My coach, good
Interview: None
Other
Intended Major: Economics with intent for McIntire
State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant): Canada
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: M
Income Bracket: my secret, but we really need financial aid which I’m not getting (woopdeedoo)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): international student, Asian male, middle class, YEAH RIGHT</p>
<p>I’m probably going to UVa next year! I’m so excited and will stay a night to make my final decision. I do have a question though:</p>
<p>Some people have already received their status for Echols, but in different dates and through different mediums. Can someone confirm if they have already sent out all Echols offers or are still in the process of doing so? On the website, it states that the offers will most likely be sent out between March 31 and April 15 but that apparently isn’t the case.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch!!! </p>