<p>post here if you've been waitlisted...anything you want: stats, whether or not you will stay on the waitlist, in state/out state, etc.</p>
<p>-1350/700/650/590
-B+ average at very competitive new england boarding school (no rank or gpa available)
-out of state, legacy, from massachusetts
-white female
-very good and diverse ECs
-good, not great, essays
-great teacher recs/counselor recs/alumni rec</p>
<p>why i think i was waitlisted: part of it is definately a curtesy because im a qualified legacy, but my B+ average and relatively low sat I/IIs didnt help</p>
<p>-remains my first choice, plan to stay on waitlist</p>
<p>-1470/800/750/700
- top 10% (right at the line)
-3.9 UW / 4.0 W
- NYC public school
- azn dude
- very focused and interesting
- art portfolio
- outstanding main essay, good short essays
- good teacher recs</p>
<p>stats:
race- asian applying to engineering instate
SAT i- math 680 verbal- 620
sat II- math I= 700 math II= 700 writing= 660 yet
gpa- 4.32 as of first semester year, but after first semester 4.38 weighted i think... rank 53/488
mediocre EC's and everyone said my essays were ok to good.. </p>
<p>i guess my SAT is to blame.. everyone in my school which is pretty competetive who was below my rank got waitlisted or rejected</p>
<p>-1450/800/760/700
-Ranked 4th out of ~600
-3.96 UW/4.69 W
-Out of state (Florida), but I lived in Virginia for my 9th and 10th grade years
-Half-Asian/Half-Caucasian
-Music and writing-oriented ECs
-Essays: Varying degrees of "goodness"
-Nice teacher rec
-Attended the 2003 Virginia Governor's School for Humanities.</p>
<p>Don't know about staying on the waitlist. I got waitlisted at Swarthmore and Amherst, and I like them a bit more.</p>
<p>do you guys know what percentage of the waitlist do they accept (based on 2003)? I know it says how many they accepted, but what is the percentage?</p>
<p>thast old. its quite less now.. last year , if i remember it was 2%... and i think its going to be even lower now since this year we had the largest number of applications</p>
<p>I had a 1390, was 22 out of 626 and numerous EC's. I don't know how UVA looked at the apps. because i know someone that got in that had much lower stats then some of u guys. By the way, im an out of state white male. I have a feeling the waitlist is going to be real tough to get off of, but im gonna try my best to get in, i love UVA!!!</p>
<p>Waitlist also,
1420 SAT, Full IB, 3 AP's, 4.0, in state, 12% Class rank before opening a new high school and 70 kids split -- now 16%, white male, go figure, UVA needs the out of state $
Blah, blah, blah on the rest.</p>
<p>1500
690/690/660 (ouch)
32
nat'l merit finalist
submitted awesome flute cd
tons of community service and ECs
okay essays
texas female
9 APs
ranked 40 out of 476
great recs</p>
<p>not putting myself on the waitlist. it's just not worth it- I would lose my $600 deposit at U of Richmond and I would have no way of receiving money from National Merit since it would be too late to name a first choice school</p>
<p>i'm actually pretty upset, because i received a likely letter from uva, and THEN they waitlisted me. that is just wrong. i mean, i know the likely letter wasn't emphatic at all (compared to say, dartmouth's), but you just DON'T go around talking about how impressed you are with one's application and then go and waitlist that person. for the record, i'm not a super student or anything like that, but i applied to uva in-state (so it's not a "reach" school per se) and have been accepted to dartmouth, williams college, northwestern, and unc-ch (all sent me likely letters, so i am a desirable and very competitive applicant). i was really counting on uva in case i can't afford my top-choice (dartmouth). anyway, if i had a ****<em>, i'd tell uva to go suck on it. what a rude place. and no, no way in hell i'm staying on their waitlist. i'd rather be in deep debt going to all those other colleges that didn't LIE *hmph</em>.</p>
<p>ok... that's a new stat. coolcwc. cuz i couldn't find anything about uva waiting list before...
william and mary and uva r 2 jerky schools in nova about the waiting list.
off topic, william and mary, last year, 900 waiting list, 0 got in... why do they need the waiting list then????!!!</p>
<p>taurustorus, try not to condemn the whole institution due to the adcom decision. It's very competitive and they do their best. There could be a variety of reasons you got placed on the waiting list. </p>
<p>I don't know about UVa, but I've heard some adcoms look at the other colleges you've applied to, and make a decision based on the likelyhood of you accepting another institutions offer over theirs. In their opinion, "why should they extend an offer to someone who's just gonna accept elsewhere?"</p>
<p>I've heard in the past UVa has rejected a large # of 4.0 students. As they've said "We don't have a minimum GPA. We don't have a minimum SAT score." They "try hard to take into account all of the information [they] see in each application."</p>
<p>I certainly think which school you've applied to has a more to do with your admission. Some, like the Comm school & the Arch school, are extremely competitive.</p>
<p>wwdr, they're not trying to be jerky schools. In many cases UVa uses the waitlist as a sort courtesy to legacies. Obviously, UVa knows that they are never going to use anywhere near those 3000 people but it is something nice that they can do for students who were close to getting in.</p>
<p>wahoo, hi, that sounds nice of uva.
but i think the waiting list is created for the sole purpose of filling the empty beds in the dorms.
that's wat i heard...</p>
<p>wwdr, if that were the case then UVa would take a waitlist of 300 not 3000. A lot of times they use it so that they can essentially reject legacies without making their donating, alumni parents too mad.</p>