So excited to hear back next month!! Good luck to all who applied! I’m thinking decisions might be announced Thursday the 21st? That’s what I’m hoping for, anyway.
My daughter is waiting for her RD answer. Does anyone know if it means anything if a University ID is generated in addition to the computing ID issued to get into SIS? The waiting to hear is painful!
In-state applicant to CA&S
ACT: 35
SAT: 1350
UW GPA: 3.87
Courses: AP Calc A/B and many DE courses in math and sciences
What are y’all’s thoughts?
when is the RD decision date
If UVA follows the same pattern as past years, I’m guessing the RD decision release date might be Friday, 3/22.
I believe UVA released decisions on a Thursday last year, so maybe the 21st?
Sorry, I know this isn’t very insightful but if all of these stats and calculations are true I’m getting really freaked out. It seems like they haven’t left nearly any space for RD admits.
If you look at the numbers, this year will not have that many less offers. In 2018 there were 21,000 EA applicants and they offered 6000 EA, leaving 3299 offers for RD. This year there were 25,000 EA applicants and they offered 6550, leaving 3849 offers for RD since they usually offer 9849. So there are 550 less offers for RD but with the EA numbers so large, the RD applications may not be that large. The question is, did that many more people apply to UVA or are the numbers the same but more applied EA?
I’m curious if one applied EA and was deferred. So let’s say they get accepted at the same time as ED decisions. Ultimately what happens. Is their acceptance then considered as an accepted EA applicant or as a RD regular decision applicant?
I believe you would be RD because you were deferred into the RD pool.
@ J123D123 … @momofthree55 is absolutely right. All deferred from EA who are accepted during RD will be considered RD admits.
There were over 40,800 applicants total for 2023
About 3500 more applicants than last year. If you are in state then the instate applicants probably didn’t go up that much since there are only so many students in state but OOS I believe will be much more competitive this year. In state may have gone up a bit but I don’t believe the number of well qualified students in the state changes much from year to year.
Look at posts #2 and #3 on this thread for some analysis…
Sounds like 60% of applicants applied EA and the EA pool is generally stronger. A number of students applying SCEA to Ivy’s also apply to UVA. If they got 25000 apply EA and the total number is around 40,000 then 15,000 applied regular with around 3850 slots that would be a 25.5% acceptance rate. But since Virginia residents have priority the Va offers would be better than 25.5% and the OOS would be lower. Last year was 38% for in state and 21% for out of state.
There were EA deferrals as well, so there are more than 15K in the RD pool.
Yes, forgot about deferred, this is an unknown, even Dean J says that there is not consistent trend on percent of deferred that get accepted. Good luck to all who applied.
Does anyone know if deferred EA applicants are equally considered like the RD applicants or decided on separately for admissions?
Deferred EA and ED are often considered the same at most schools. Likely true at UVA too. Often the percent deferred EA accepted is around the same or slightly less as the overall percent accepted during regular decision. Really depends on the schools deferral Policy. For instance Georgetown defers everyone whereas Notre Dame defers a much more select group. So the variance between the two schools is likely noticeable. I would rather be deferred in the smaller Notre Dame pool by a few points advantage. Still likely not a dramatic difference in the end.
UVA yield has drifted down from 52% in 1991 to 39% in 2018: https://ias.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/undergraduate-admissions
It’s somewhat of a reach for our D with 35 ACT and 4.2 GPA as she is NoVa, female, and white. But for many it’s a safety school in case they don’t get into an Ivy;).