Ahhhh...College Admissions! UVA = Dream School.

lil_killer129 · 05-01-2006, 11:16 PM

For those of you who got accepted, please post the number of AP courses you took, your unweighted GPA, and weighted GPA. This would help me a lot. Thanks.

Bklyn2Cornell · 05-01-2006, 11:37 PM

Hello there! Im from NYC too. If you have any questions, just IM me. Im an Echols scholar Class of 2010.

Globalist · 05-02-2006, 02:00 AM

Lil_Killer,

In the Fall, the UVa Club of NY hosts an admissions night at the Yale Club located on the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. & 44th St. It's kitty corner from Grand Central. (FYI, we share a clubhouse w/ Yale and Dartmouth). The event is usually hosted by one of the Deans of Admission and features a panel of recent graduates. In August, send an email to the UVa Club about the event, and our Executive Director will give you the details. The Club's email address is: uvanyc@uvanyc.org

semiserious · 05-05-2006, 05:22 PM

Hey, I'm from Los Angeles and I'll be attending UVA in the class of 2010 as an Echols Scholar. To answer your questions, I didn't take ALL the AP courses my school offered. I followed an AP track in English, History, Studio Art, and foreign language (mine was French), but not in math or science. I took some advanced science courses, but I didn't even take a math course my senior year. I went up to regular Calculus, finished that, didn't waste my time on an AP, and dropped math altogether. I don't like math much.

I think it actually worked in my favor because I was very sincere; I didn't kiss ass by taking classes I hated, I showed genuine interest in those I liked.

My weighted GPA at the end of all this was a 3.92--I don't know what it was unweighted. The lowest grade on my transcript was a B+ in a regular course. I had mostly A-s with a few As and a couple B+s. My school doesn't release rankings, but I know I was ranked about 20th out of 100 students. I go to a private college prep school full of overachievers; the top 25 students all have GPAs within .3 points of each other (4.2-3.9).

I got a 2280 on my SATs: 800 critical reading, 800 writing, 680 math. Haha...again with the math.

I was involved in sports and a few clubs. I was president of one of the clubs (French Club), but nothing amazing or outstanding.

For UVA, I think it's important to write good essays and be sincere. I think they see past a lot of the grade bullcrap that some many people are preoccupied with here on CC. I tried to make sure my app really reflected who I am, and it worked for me.

Good luck!!

tenniscraze · 05-05-2006, 06:29 PM

Good to have someone from Cali going to UVA! yay.

semiserious · 05-06-2006, 09:35 PM

Are you from far away, too, tenniscraze?

musings · 05-06-2006, 10:55 PM

Hmmm

3.9 Weighted... dunno what it was unweighted
2250 SATs? 790 Math 770 CR 690 Writing >.>

I've taken 8 APs and 2 duel enrollment classes
AP Lang, AP Lit
AP US, AP Gov
AP Calc BC
AP Bio, AP Physics B
AP Music Theory
Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra

and I'm going to be going to UVA as Echols ^ ^ Class of 2010

cardsfan1 · 05-06-2006, 10:58 PM

White male, oos legacy- deferred ed, accepted rd.
-5 aps (AP eng. lit, world hist.- 4, us hist.- 5, biology, and european hist.)
-uw gpa- 3.9 (93 out of 100)
-w gpa- 4.07 (94.5/100%)
sats- (m-640, cr- 650, writ- 670)

tenniscraze · 05-07-2006, 05:28 AM

Yeah man, I'm like from the other side of the world - I've lived in Indonesia for the past 4 years of my life. I lived in Stanford for about 2 months and really like people from Cali; I've always wanted to be in the West Coast for college but it didn't quite work out that way. We have only quite a number of students from Cali here - my friend Kim from San Francisco, and Jessica from San Diego. I can't wait to go to Stanford this summer although it's only just for 3 days. Where are u from?

wonwon · 05-07-2006, 11:08 AM

3.957 Weighted

1850 SAT ; 670M, 590V, 590W

7APs but 9 AP Tests
(AP Comparative Gov (which is AP GOV, and AP COMP GOV)), AP Physics C (E&M and Mechanics), AP Lit, AP Lang, AP HMN GEO, AP CALC BC, AP US HISTORY

In-state

But, I am doing uVA: School of Engineering which admits like 1/4 less then uVA: CaS

cavalier302 · 05-07-2006, 12:42 PM

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But, I am doing uVA: School of Engineering which admits like 1/4 less then uVA: CaS

What do you mean?

semiserious · 05-07-2006, 12:48 PM

I'm from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Are Kim and Jessica going to UVA or the Stanford thing?

tenniscraze · 05-07-2006, 06:01 PM

Kim and Jess are already UVA students.

jags861 · 05-07-2006, 09:37 PM

i think he meant that the engineering school accepts 1/4 as many as the college does. but then again they also get like 1/9 the applications :-/

wonwon · 05-08-2006, 07:01 PM

No... uVA: SoE gets 1/3 as many application as uVA: CAS, but Cas I believe accepts a plurality while uVA: SoE is capped at 500 students a class. I think uVA: SoA (Architecture is even more restrictive)